Bug#472846: busybox: Regression in pidof: no longer lists 'debian-installer' processes

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:18:59PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> In Debian Installer we're seeing a regression in pidof. For certain
> processes it no longer returns the PID.
> 
> # ps ax | grep [d]ebian-installer
>   452 root       1408 S   /bin/sh /sbin/debian-installer
>  5594 root       1964 S   /bin/sh /sbin/debian-installer /bin/network-console-m
>  5641 root       1964 S   /bin/sh /sbin/debian-installer /bin/network-console-m
> # pidof debian-installer
> #

This matches the behaviour of the sysvinit pidof:
| $ pidof sh            
| 8402
| $ pidof test.sh
| $ ps x | grep test.sh
|  8402 pts/4    S+     0:00 /bin/sh ./test.sh

Bastian

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