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

Daniel Tordable arikapwr at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 15:52:40 UTC 2009


Stephen Montgomery-Smith escribió:
> I would like to introduce a program into the base called
> "screw-the-whole-system."  It would do something like this:
>
> while true; do \
> echo "Please wait while your system is being destroyed..."
> sleep 10
> done
>
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Why not adding regexp functionality to our killall in order just to do

root # killall *
System is going down INMEDIATELY

and then forget about the "shutdown" command to save some KiB of space?


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