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

["Eddy Petrișor" <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>]

On 27/03/2008, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:
> 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

current sysvinit does also this:

0 eddy@twix ~ $ ps axu | grep kits_req_server
eddy     23013  0.0  0.1   4520   720 pts/7    S    10:51   0:00
/bin/sh ./kits_req_server.sh
eddy     23015  0.0  0.0   4520   312 pts/7    S    10:51   0:00
/bin/sh ./kits_req_server.sh
eddy     25990  0.0  0.1   3716   728 pts/7    S+   11:31   0:00 grep
--colour kits_req_server
0 eddy@twix ~ $ pgrep kits_req_server.sh
1 eddy@twix ~ $ pgrep kits_req_server
23013
23015



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Regards,
EddyP
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