Re: [PATCH] Support for thresholds in du(1)

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:30 PM, jhell wrote: > I like it!. It looks like a really useful option. Though if you really need to free up a lot of space, try a Freshmeat search[1] for [ disk usage ]. It reveals many tools that look even better, including ncdu[2] which doesn't require Xorg. But I d

Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > And yet there is ZERO interest in changing this in FreeBSD. As you can see elsewhere in this thread, I am discussing it with Xin. So far, both he and the Linux killall maintainer have said "no", but I am using rational arguments to try to con

Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Doug Barton 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

Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Jason A. Spiro wrote: [snip] > Xin, I'd like to discuss this issue with you by some means other than > email. Followup to my earlier message: Thanks for sending me a private mail with your Jabber address. I added you. But then I saw your most recen

Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

Hi Xin, On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Xin LI wrote: > I'm afraid that it's too late to change either parties, i.e. there > would be a lot of scripts that rely on the BSD or Linux behavior, etc. That is why I suggested that you first show a warning message for five years, then do the renaming

Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Xin LI wrote: > > 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 w

Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

Dear Craig, thanks for maintaining the "killall" command on Linux. Dear hackers, thanks for maintaining it on FreeBSD. Naming it the same as System V killall, which just kills all processes, can wreak havoc. When someone types a standard Linux killall command line as root on a Solaris or HP-UX se