Bug#926896: sysvinit-utils: pidof is unreliable

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Svante Signell wrote:

> > However, since you asked, PATH_MAX is set to 2048 in pidof.

This is twice as long as needed on all other systems, and
possibly too short on the Hurd.

> > Using get_current_dir_name() is not a valid way to do it as it is not
> > portable across C libraries.

That’s what you have autoconf for. The Hurd always uses glibc
because that’s part of the OS, instead of just a syscall wrapper
like on Unix-like operating systems.

> Well getcwd (NULL, 0) is supported by all glibc-based distributions.

So is get_current_dir_name().

> This is an extension of POSIX.1-2001, see man getcwd. 

But much harder to test for than just a compile-time check for
function existence.

bye,
//mirabilos
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