Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:54:46 -0500 From: "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com> To: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in Message-ID: <c241693f0912221454o1a6bd54v7e1d7afb2694a9e2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a78074950912221434i36be337co7ee1f9ad6bb5c921@mail.gmail.com> References: <c241693f0912212231g5c380246kf12f7bde974bb734@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912221409400.21806@qvfongpu.5c.ybpny> <loom.20091222T230421-82@post.gmane.org> <a78074950912221434i36be337co7ee1f9ad6bb5c921@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Xin, On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm afraid that it's too late to change either parties, i.e. there > would be a lot of scripts that rely on the BSD or Linux behavior, etc. That is why I suggested that you first show a warning message for five years, then do the renaming. > =A0Instead of making changes to killall which already diverge between > open source implementation and closed source ones, If you rename the open source killall to "fkill", then you will no longer have a killall command which differs between open source and closed source. > it might be better > off to have administrators to learn some more consistent ways to do > the same task, i.e. pkill. It would be good if sysadmins learned not to use killall. But I think that most sysadmins who are already used to killall are unlikely to learn not to type the command "killall" unless you rename open-source killall to a different name like "fkill". I think it's impractical to expect all sysadmins to switch to pkill. Pkill is missing the option which displays a list onscreen of which processes were killed. I sent a feature request to the maintainer, but there is no guarantee that the maintainer will add that option. And maybe there are other pkill options which are missing from skill. Cheers, -Jason
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