Bug#924792: pidof: unsanitized user input makes pidof crash

[KatolaZ]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 05:54:56PM -0300, Jesse Smith wrote:
> I am certainly open to replacing the "format" flag (-f) with an
> alternative field separator flag. It has a nice Unixy feel to it and
> requires less code.
> 
> Personally, I think using -d (or --delimiter) might be the only change
> I'd want to make to the patch KatolaZ provided. Partly because pidof
> already has a lower-case "-s" flag and I want to avoid confusion, and
> because tools like cut also use "-d".
> 
> If there are no objections, I'll upstream KatolaZ's patch and remove the
> "-f" flag.
> 

No objections on my side.  '-d' makes sense to me as well.

@Jesse: I feel I owe you an apology. I read again my first post in
this thread, and I noticed that it might have sounded harsh, or worse,
patronising. Sorry: that was never my intention.  I hope you can
accept my apologies.

HND

KatolaZ

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