Bug#926896: sysvinit-utils: pidof is unreliable

[Axel Beckert]

Костик Покотиленко wrote:
> Fedora ships pidof with procps-ng (procps on Debian) and does not have such
> problem.
> 
> Debian ships pidof with sysvinit-utils which have this problem (skipping D
> and Z processes).

Костик Покотиленко wrote:
> This is regarding why this bug is not observed in Stretch and earlier.
> 
> D and Z skipping behaviour was introduced by
> http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git/commit/src/killall5.c?id=1b659c8ebebd86be51095ab905293889a306ff01
> 
> to resolve
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719273

So from what I gather, this means that procps's pidof has the problem
described in this bug report?

>From my point of view the only way to solve this without reopening
#719273 is to add a switch which recognizes D processes or not. Or
adds some kind of timeout.

		Regards, Axel
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