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

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Wed Dec 23 00:00:06 UTC 2009


Jason A. Spiro wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> There
>> is no hope whatsoever that you're going to get every Unix that has a
>> rational 'killall' command to change, so can we please drop this thread?
> 
> It's never too late to change something for the better. 

And yet there is ZERO interest in changing this in FreeBSD. Why don't
you start working on the various linux distros instead, and report
back here with your results.


Doug

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