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Date:      Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:57:41 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in
Message-ID:  <loom.20091222T204928-350@post.gmane.org>
References:  <c241693f0912212231g5c380246kf12f7bde974bb734@mail.gmail.com> <a78074950912212318t7e6e3ac9x334837c9dfb52dbd@mail.gmail.com> <20091222115336.3515e69e@ernst.jennejohn.org>

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Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn <at> freenet.de> writes:

> I'm wondering why we even need killall when pkill seems to have the same
> basic functionality and is located in /bin (and /rescue) rather than /usr/bin?

I like killall because of its -v (verbose) option.  It lets me know what killall
killed.  You just inspired me to request the pkill upstream maintainer to add a
similar option.  My feature request is at http://bugs.debian.org/562111 .

-Jason




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