On Tue, 22.12.2009 at 11:53:36 +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:18:43 -0800 > Xin LI <delp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspi...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > Craig, and hackers, are you both willing to do this? > > > > No. > > > > killall is not part of standard, and, just because System V choose to > > implement that way, does not warrant that FreeBSD has to. Moreover, > > user can always alias /sbin/killall to 'fkill' and 'kill -15 -1' to > > 'killall' if they really want the System V behavior. > > > > I'm wondering why we even need killall when pkill seems to have the same > basic functionality and is located in /bin (and /rescue) rather than /usr/bin?
Seconded, people should make it a habit to use pkill or for example pgrep instead of killall or ps|grep. Way more portable anyway :) Regards, Uli _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
