Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/wake

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 27.06.2009 um 05:27 schrieb Simon Burge:

> Marc Balmer wrote:
>
> > Am 27.06.2009 um 00:08 schrieb Marc Balmer:
> >
> > > Am 26.06.2009 um 20:22 schrieb David Laight:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 01:38:32PM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > > > > I think this utility should be renamed wakeonlan because wake is
> > > > > too generic.
> > > >
> > > > FWIW I agree ...
> > >
> > > I disagree.  Totally.
> >
> > and I forgot to mention why:  the command name reflects what the
> > command does,
> > not how it does it.  wakeonlan would be misleading, because a LAN
> > could also
> > be a token ring, where this would nor work... (ok, exaggerating a  
> > bit,
> > but you get
> > the idea)
> >
> > should we rename ssh to sshovertcpip ;)  tcpdump to tcpdumponlan?
>
> "wake" is a lot more generic term than "ssh" or "tcpdump".  When I  
> first
> saw the subject "CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/wake" it wasn't in any way
> obvious that this sent wake-on-lan packets to remote hosts.  My first
> guess was something that "woke up" processes blocked in the kernel  
> that
> are otherwise unkillable - try "man -k wake" for example.

I deliberately choose that name when I first wrote the command (I use  
it on other OSs as well) and of course I first talked to my sponsors  
before I added it to NetBSD.

Waking processes from the command line sounds like a strange use case  
to me.

> Cheers,
> Simon.