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# XXX says that it's bad to form the habit of using                              
# killall, since on Solaris it ... er ... kills all the processes on                        
# the system.  Better to use pkill.                                                         
    if [ -n "$(type -p killall)" ]; then                                                    
        killall ()                                                                          
        {                                                                                   
            echo "Use \`pkill' instead."                                                    
        }                                                                                   
        pkill ()                                                                            
        {                                                                                   
            command killall "$@"                                                            
        }                                                                                   
    fi