Bug#1033311: sysvinit-utils: pidof not always returning a pid when using the full path to a program

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, Jesse Smith wrote:

>pidof isn't going to chase down multiple layers of symbolic links. If

I consider that a (not release-critical) bug that should be
addressed by a Debian-local patch if upstream is hostile.

bye,
//mirabilos
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