Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:29:16 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Eldredge <nate@thatsmathematics.com> To: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0912221027270.5432@zeno.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <20091222081401.GB13725@enc.com.au> References: <c241693f0912212231g5c380246kf12f7bde974bb734@mail.gmail.com> <20091222081401.GB13725@enc.com.au>
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On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Craig Small wrote: > I also agree with Daniel; why would anyone want to literally kill every > process? AFAIK, it's a helper program for shutdown(8) (or shutdown(1M) as they call it) and isn't really intended to be useful otherwise. -- Nate Eldredge nate@thatsmathematics.com
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