Simon Burge <sim...@netbsd.org> writes: > "wake" is a lot more generic term than "ssh" or "tcpdump". When I first > saw the subject "CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/wake" it wasn't in any way > obvious that this sent wake-on-lan packets to remote hosts. My first > guess was something that "woke up" processes blocked in the kernel that > are otherwise unkillable - try "man -k wake" for example.
That was my exact guess too, which is why I agree that a slightly more descriptive name would be good. Perry