From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-07-11T12:16:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

On 7/10/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> John Joyce wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I wonder if the *nix command kill garnered as many wasted keystrokes
> >> debating its naming?
> >
> >
>
> Well, I for one don't like the name "kill" for a command/system call
> that merely sends a *signal* to a process. "kill" is simply one of the
> possible signals it can send. I would have called it "signal". It has
> nothing to do with the offensiveness or lack thereof of the name -- it's
> simply an overspecialized name for a more general function.

Wow Ed, you've managed to get off-topic on an off-topic thread. :)

(that having been said, I've had similar feelings about the command.)

-greg