Hi! On Thu, 2026-05-07 at 11:53:42 +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: > More constrained programs could exploit other Essential utilities > like grep or find. For instance (hat tip to Simon McVittie): > > ``` > find /proc -maxdepth 2 -path '/proc/[0-9]*/exe' \ > -xtype f -lname /usr/bin/$daemon -print -quit` > ```
Ugh, please no. Besides being unportable, this will not match on deleted filenames, to start with. As mentioned on #810018, I've now implemented support for printing the matched PIDs in start-stop-daemon (not sure yet whether to make it a command or an option), but the functionality should be present in the next dpkg release. Thanks, Guillem
