Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

[Jason A. Spiro]

Dear Craig, thanks for maintaining the "killall" command on Linux.
Dear hackers, thanks for maintaining it on FreeBSD.

Naming it the same as System V killall, which just kills all
processes, can wreak havoc.  When someone types a standard Linux
killall command line as root on a Solaris or HP-UX server, System V
killall runs and kills all processes.

It might be good if you'd rename it to something else.  Not "akill"
(All Kill):  it looks like IRIX probably ships with something called
akill already, so this would be confusing.  Maybe "fkill" (Friendly
Kill).

You could do this in phases:  for the first five years,
/usr/bin/killall could print a warning onscreen, then function as
usual.  After five years, it could cease to function unless you call
it as "fkill".

Craig, and hackers, are you both willing to do this?

-Jason

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