Bug#926896: sysvinit-utils: pidof is unreliable
Mark Hindley
mark at hindley.org.uk
Sat Oct 23 15:39:16 BST 2021
Jesse,
Thanks for this.
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 02:51:36PM -0300, Jesse Smith wrote:
> Please give the attached patch a try and confirm it's working. It's
> working here for normal and zombie processes and it seems to be okay for
> uninterruptable sleep processes too, but I'd like to have someone else
> confirm everything looks right before I push this upstream.
Functionally it works well for me.
Whilst running
find / -nowarn >/dev/null
the new pidof consistently returns the pid, whereas the old pidof intermittently
fails to do so.
I can build a new version of sysvinit-utils for experimental with the patch to
facilitate further wider testing.
Thanks.
Mark
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