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

Nate Eldredge nate at thatsmathematics.com
Tue Dec 22 18:29:18 UTC 2009


On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Craig Small wrote:

> I also agree with Daniel; why would anyone want to literally kill every
> process?

AFAIK, it's a helper program for shutdown(8) (or shutdown(1M) as they call 
it) and isn't really intended to be useful otherwise.

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Nate Eldredge
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