Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4 <at> 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 you think?
Since Xin and I CC'ed each other so often in this thread, Gmail automatically added us to each others' Gtalk instant-messenger contact lists. Since it'd been more than a month and Xin still hadn't replied to this message, I instant messaged him the idea and asked him what he thought. He replied that, in his opinion, this new idea is pointless: nobody would notice the renaming, and it would just cause confusion. I asked, what if the tool would show a hint onscreen if you called it using the old name? He said no. He said people can just use pkill. I hope Eitan Adler's patch[1], which adds a "verbose" option to pkill, will get accepted, and that a similar patch will get accepted into the Linux pkill, maintained by Albert Calahan. ^ [1]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers/38636 _______________________________________________ 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"
