Bug#691422: init-functions: order of arguments is not context-free
Package: lsb-base
Version: 4.1+Debian7
Severity: normal
As spotted in #691365, it turns out that the pidofproc function provided in
/lib/lsb/init-functions is not context free. Calling
pidofproc "$DAEMON" -p $PIDFILE"
in contrast to
pidofproc -p $PIDFILE "$DAEMON"
yields different results if the file in $PIDFILE does not exist. This yields to a
non-context-freeness which is probably not what the user calling this function
expects.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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