On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, matthew green wrote:

> i am only curious as to how killall(1) fits with othe OS's that have
> `killall' commands.... what are they and what do they do?

Linux:
	o Signals processes by name
	o Is written in C
	o Uses /proc

FreeBSD:
	o Signals processes by name
	o Is written in perl
	o Uses procfs

Mine:
	o Signals processes by name or all processes on a tty
	o Is written in C
	o Uses kvm_getprocs

SunOS, AT&T SVR4.2 and SCO:
	o Kills every process on the system

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