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. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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