October 07, 2002
killall(1M) vs killall(1) [ Humor ]
Most Unix admins have a particularly favorite mistake they've committed. After all, when you have a (now shrinking) variety of similar but not-quite-the-same implementations of the same general idea, you're bound to run into inconsistencies.
My personal favorite is the killall command. On one popular (commercial) version of Unix, it does one thing. On another popular (open-source) re-implementation of Unix, it does something rather different.
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