On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:38:42PM -0000, Petr Novotny wrote:
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> On 24 Nov 99, at 8:35, thomas.erskine-dated-1071beae9be5271f@crc wrote:
> > All you linux folks: Please don't suggest using killall without warning.
> > It's not standard unix (so what?)
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> Uh? Since when is not *BSD a standard unix?
There is no standard unix. The semantics of killall vary among unices,
therefore Thomas is right to comment on my use of 'killall'.
> > and the only other place I've
> > encountered killall is on solaris, where it tries to kill *all* processes.
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> Another reason to avoid SysV-based systems. :-)
Redhat seems to call itself SysV-based, just like SuSE and Debian. I must say
I _hate_ it. But let's not have that discussion here :)
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
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