Markus, Thanks for this.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 08:40:20AM +0100, Markus Fischer wrote: > Package: sysvinit-utils > Version: 3.06-2 > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: none > > Dear Maintainer, > > Passing the full path of a binary to the pidof command does not always > return a pid although the process is running and the man page of the > pidof command explicitly notes that it can be used that way. > > This might be related to the fact that all programs with which I tested > this and which show this unexpected behaviour were symlinks (i.e., > "which <PROGRAM>" returned a symlink). Yes, I just tried with vim.basic which is not a symlink on my system and both pidof vim.basic pidof $(which vim.basic) work as expected. > However, on Debian Bullseye the > behaviour is as I expected it. So this appears to be a change in behaviour. I suspect this is an inadvertent side-effect of 0b695c7e0b1cac60ed77c56f224e296f023b652e. Jesse, or was it intentional? Thanks Mark
