Bug#926896: sysvinit-utils: pidof is unreliable

[Tim Connors]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021, Jesse Smith wrote:

> "pidof -z <process name>" should return all matching processes,
> including those in the zombie state.
>
> The attached patch also cleans up some code we don't need as a result of
> this change and updates the man page.
>
> 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.

It works for basic usage of `pidof find`, `pidof dd`, etc, but I can't
confirm nor deny whether it breaks system shutdown for people using
sysvinit in the presence of broken remote mounts.


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Tim Connors