Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 8:41 PM Harald Dunkel <ha...@afaics.de> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > AFAICS there are several packages that appear to be unaware of / > do not care about containers, e.g. opensmtpd, bind9, apt-cacher-ng, > probably everything using pidof or pidofproc from /lib/lsb/init-\ > functions). > > I noticed that containerization and Linux namespaces are not number > one priority for Debian, but do you think this could be addressed > for Buster? Its pretty annoying if you try to maintain the Debian host > system, and a LXC container is affected instead. > > > Thanx in advance > > Harri > > https://bugs.debian.org/888569 > https://bugs.debian.org/888743 > https://bugs.debian.org/858837 > https://bugs.debian.org/924551 >
If I read these bugs correctly, all are the same thing and it's the bug in lsb. And the straightforward fix mentioned in #888743 and #858837 is to use `pidof -c` instead of `pidof` in pidofproc function provided by lsb-base package. I think there's no harm for this patch. -- Shengjing Zhu
