> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Maloney [mailto:adamm at sihope.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:37 AM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Favorite Linux/Unix Programs...

> 
> Every once in awhile I pick up a sob story on usenet or 
> sun-managers about
> someone who came from a Linux background and used SunOS' 
> killall, thinking
> it did what Linux's killall does.  It doesn't.  Not at all.  It does
> EXACTLY what the name implies.  This makes for some great 
> fodder when the
> person ran killall on, say, a large financial firm's E10k.

 Linux NAME
       killall - kill processes by name

Solaris NAME
     killall - kill all active processes

Yup, significant difference.  Why Linux named it that is a good question.
Killproc would have been better I think.

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