Craig Small <csmall <at> enc.com.au> writes: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:31:02AM -0500, Jason A. Spiro wrote: > > Hello Jason (and the FreeBSD folk), > > The problem for me is that killall in Linux has been called that for a > very long time now. psmisc came out 11 years ago and before that killall > was in procps. I'm not sure when but the copyright message says 1994. > > That's 16 years or more of people getting very used to killall doing > what it does and being called killall. I know of the problem you refer > to having administered Solaris servers before, but changing the name now > will cause more problems than it solves.
What problems will it cause, other than a torrent of complaints? > > Craig, and hackers, are you both willing to do this? > > I'm not. Even though I just got a new SATA drive its not big enough to > handle the torrent of emails from people saying "why did i do that" and > "who cares about Solaris" etc etc if I did change it. I can create a special email address for this, you can mention "Complaints to" and the new address in the warning message, and I can try to reply to everyone. I will make use of form letters whenever it makes sense to. > Sounds like its a no from FreeBSD folk too. In fact to me its more > important my various programs look the same(ish) across the Linux > distributions and to FreeBSD than they are to Solaris. [snip] I will reply to Xin's "no" message later. I agree that it's a good idea that you and the FreeBSD folk should use the same name for the same utility. _______________________________________________ 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"
