Xin LI <delphij <at> delphij.net> writes: > killall can be used by scripts which just works in the past, and will > never notice the warnings.
On what scripts will nobody notice the warnings? For example, AFAIK, cron job output is always mailed to root. The only scripts I can think of are scripts called by web applications like PHP, and I can't think of any concrete case where they would run killall. > Also, killall is not "that" dangerous on > FreeBSD, we should ONLY give warnings when it's really necessary, > otherwise users would just ignore all warnings we gave to them. > > On the other hand, it seems to us that warning messages won't work, no > matter how long we give it, it is being ignored by a majority of users. Good points. > Then users are already familiar with FreeBSD would have to learn what > "fkill" is, and after all, having them to pay for mistakes made by > commercial Unix vendors does not seem to be a fair option. As I wrote elsewhere[1] in this thread, it seems to me the commercial vendors made no mistakes here; only Linux and FreeBSD made mistakes. > Well, I'd say it's too late for us to change since it's several years > after we have 'killall' our way. I replied to this in the last paragraph of text in [1]. > pkill have '-I', at least on FreeBSD... There is no such option in pkill on Linux.[2] ^ [1]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers/38308/focus=38332 ^ [2]. http://linux.die.net/man/1/pkill _______________________________________________ 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"
