On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:33:19 +0100 Thomas Liske wrote:

> The output of needrestart indeed did look very suspicious. It seems
> that needrestart 2.3 - 2.5 did not report processes using obsolete
> mapped files any more. Those processes being reported were detected
> due to the interpreters heuristic. Looking at the code I've found a
> dumb commit by myself which had killed the parsing of /proc/$PID/maps
> completly :-/

You might want to add a test suite so regressions like this are found.

A DEP-8 test suite could also be useful to find issues due to changes
in the Linux kernel or other things needrestart relies on.

http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/

-- 
bye,
pabs

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