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

Xin LI delphij at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 07:45:03 UTC 2009


On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspiro4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Craig, and hackers, are you both willing to do this?

No.

killall is not part of standard, and, just because System V choose to
implement that way, does not warrant that FreeBSD has to.  Moreover,
user can always alias /sbin/killall to 'fkill' and 'kill -15 -1' to
'killall' if they really want the System V behavior.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net


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