Re: killall again

["Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>]

In message <38A6ECA9.DA386501@commerced.com>
	so spake "Adam N. Thompson, MCNE, MCSE" (athompso):

> The linux killall is taken directly from IRIX, fwiw.  Historical
> documentation indicates the IRIX syntax was brought over to Linux before
> anyone involved (at the time) knew of the Solaris killall command.

While killall is an SysV'ism, we can't blame Solaris for the less
useful semantics.  HP-UX has had the 'kill all processes' style of
killall for quite some time and the HP-UX man page references SVID2
so it appears to have existed with those semantics long before
Solaris did.

Anyway, the point, if there is one, is that using the 'killall'
name is a bad idea.  Using 'xap' (or skill--anyone remember that
one?) is much better.  Besides, killall is too much to type to be
a useful command ;-)

 - todd