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Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?



In article <[🔎] 199701212352.PAA09081@wsbip1.mckesson.com>,
Stephen Zander  <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com> wrote:
>Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
>> Ok, how's this for a killer Linux feature.  killall(1).  I f*cking _love_
>> killall; you just have to be careful not to use it on non-Linux systems.
>> 8^)
>>
>
>Nice try, but wrong again. That's a SVR4 feature :)
>
>>From my Solaris man page...
>
>killall(1M)           Maintenance Commands            killall(1M)
> 
>NAME
>     killall - kill all active processes

Yeah but Linux's killall is something entirely different. The sysv killall is
called killall5 in Linux.. causing a lot of confusion :)

Mike.
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