Talk:Linuxism

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why is the example a linuxism and not a bsdism? google search for setlinebuf bsdism gets more hits than setlinebuf linuxism (excluding wiki mirrors). -- taviso 15:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I get your point for that example, since there's no definition by the standard, it's not really an -ism either way. I'm sure there's better examples, but that's the first thing I could think of. Dysprosia 22:27, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Heh, why the killall (for killing a process by it's name) example is a linuxism and not a freebsdism? :) Can't anyone find a real example, please? Heh, let's put it the other way -- killall (for killing all processes) is a sunism, but it doesn't follow the other way around! MureninC 17:58, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

The issue is not so clear cut for killall. I believe Solaris predates Linux, so if that is indeed the case, it is indeed a linuxism. Dysprosia 01:00, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

This is what I have on man killall: MureninC 19:22, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

HISTORY
     The killall command appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.  It has been modeled after
     the killall command as available on other platforms.

Yeah, it probably is a linuxism. OpenBSD has pkill(1), too, and it was modelled after Solaris 7. MureninC 19:52, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, what are you trying to say? Are you being sarcastic? Dysprosia 00:19, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Nah, I actually do think that 'available on other platforms' means 'available on GNU/Linux'. :) BTW, OpenBSD's pkill(1) was ported from NetBSD somewhile ago, so we have one more OS that has pkill. :) MureninC 14:10, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I still fail to see what you're trying to say. The point is if that the Linux people changed the preexisting behaviour of killall to something contrary to historical behaviour, that strongly suggests killall's behaviour is a linuxism. If Solaris was the first to have killall and it had the behaviour as described in the article, then that suggests further that killall's behaviour in Linux is a linuxism. Dysprosia 03:15, 7 May 2006 (UTC)