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 -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
