From: wbp@... (Will Parsons)
Date: 2007-07-12T00:55:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 11/07/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> However, there was no command completion back then. Kill is shorter,
> easier to type, even one-handed while eating pizza ;-)
> Note that the function in C is called signal, only the user command is kill.

Actually, no.  The C equivalent of the kill command is kill(). (At least
on POSIX-type platforms, that is.  There is no equivalent in the standard
C library - signal() has another purpose.)

- Will