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

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 22 23:44:05 UTC 2009


Jason Spiro wrote:
> Using aliases would help me, but wouldn't help people elsewhere in the world who
> don't know what SysV killall does. 

Seriously, it's not our problem if solaris did something stupid. 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?


Thanks,

Doug

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