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

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Jason A. Spiro wrote:
> 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).

<snark>
Why not get Sun and HP to change killall to match Linux & *BSD 
behaviour?
</snark>

Although seriously, why not? killall just killing everything is a fairly 
dangerous command with almost no use in the real world.
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