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

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:18:43 -0800
Xin LI <delphij at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

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?

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Gary Jennejohn