From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 22 18:29:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06642106566B for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:29:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nate@thatsmathematics.com) Received: from euclid.ucsd.edu (euclid.ucsd.edu [132.239.145.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25AD8FC15 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:29:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zeno.ucsd.edu (zeno.ucsd.edu [132.239.145.22]) by euclid.ucsd.edu (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id nBMITHo00283; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:29:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (neldredg@localhost) by zeno.ucsd.edu (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id nBMITHi19746; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:29:17 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zeno.ucsd.edu: neldredg owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:29:16 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Eldredge X-X-Sender: neldredg@zeno.ucsd.edu To: Craig Small In-Reply-To: <20091222081401.GB13725@enc.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20091222081401.GB13725@enc.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Jason A. Spiro" Subject: Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:29:18 -0000 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