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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