Re: killall again

["James WorK" <jwk@lords.com>]

> This is already in the ports tree, under the name "zap", which Kernighan
> & Pike gave it in 1984. Maybe I should modify the port to install
> it with an alias of killall.  The version in there now, I believe,
> does support killall -HUP (I think it's  -sHUP, having chosen
> compatibility with standards over compatibility with the kill command).

For what I know, zap doesn't support signal choice nor the ability 
to kill ALL the processes that match the argument at once (then 
not suitable for scripting).


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