Re: Renaming "killall" and forever symlinking the old name to the new name

2010-02-04 Thread Jason Spiro
Jason Spiro gmail.com> writes: [snip] > > You could rename killall to something else, and update the manpage to show the > new name, then symlink or hard link "killall" to the new name forever. This > would encourage people to use the new name, but it would never force them to. > > Xin, what do

Renaming "killall" and forever symlinking the old name to the new name (was: Suggestion: rename ...)

2009-12-23 Thread Jason Spiro
Xin LI delphij.net> writes: > killall is used for instance, shutdown scripts. Yes you get the warning > message on your console but not the remote ssh. [snip] > It's way too late to say something a "mistake" after about 15 years. [snip] > FreeBSD users are already get used > with our killall b