On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Doug Barton <do...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Seriously, it's not our problem if solaris did something stupid. Actually, it looks like the mistake was made by Linux and FreeBSD developers. SunOS had[1] killall in 1992, and maybe earlier. Craig said the earliest copyright date on Linux killall is 1994. I think FreeBSD killall is newer than 1994, since its manpage says that it was modeled after the killall included with other OSes. I think this must mean Linux. When Linux and FreeBSD made their kill-selected-processes command, they shouldn't've called it killALL. But mistakes happen. Luckily, mistakes can be corrected. > There > is no hope whatsoever that you're going to get every Unix that has a > rational 'killall' command to change, so can we please drop this thread? It's never too late to change something for the better. Xorg finally set Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to be disabled by default about a year ago, to prevent accidental data loss by newbies. Some people agree with this, some people disagree, but the change is done. So it would have been better to write "There is little hope, so can we please drop this thread?" instead. ^ [1]. http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0708/6mgg6t7gv?a=view _______________________________________________ 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"
