From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Feb 9 16:40:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8C437B426 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 16:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1A0e3S38294; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 16:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 16:40:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202100040.g1A0e3S38294@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: docs/34758: Irrelevant comment in killall(1) manpage Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/34758; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jakob Borg Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/34758: Irrelevant comment in killall(1) manpage Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 02:36:20 +0200 (EET) Jakob Borg wrote: > The manpage for killall(1) says: > > Be warned that typing killall name may not have the > desired effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done > by a privileged user. > > which, while perhaps correct, is not relevant for a FreeBSD system. Also, > the operating system kernel in use at a particular system should not influence > the behavior of killall. Well the point the author is trying to make is that on Solaris (and probably other systems) typing "killall" in a prompt is a surprise in itself, because it REBOOTS the system !!! You're right that this should exclude Linux systems only though :-) Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message