Bug#926896: sysvinit-utils: pidof is unreliable

Fri Dec 4 12:28:11 GMT 2020

The fix can be simple.
Currently processes in D and R state are ignored by pidof completely. But we can use readlink() instead stat() in this case. Function readlink curretnly used with -n option for some processes.

On Mon, 25 May 2020 14:06:42 +0200 (CEST) Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 May 2020, Костик Покотиленко wrote:
> 
> > Should the fix be expected for Buster?
> 
> Definitely not.
> 
> If there is a fix, then you can hope for bullseye.
> 
> bye,
> //mirabilos
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