Bug#153547: start-stop-daemon: pid_is_exec may fails to achieve its goal

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Thomas Morin wrote:
> Perhaps I'm missing something somewhere, but what's the point of checking 
> the inode ? How is it better than checking the path ?

The path will change as well. In weird corner cases like the one you
described just make sure the daemon writes a usable pid file and use
that instead.

Wichert.

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