Dear Axel, upon further investigation it does not look as if this is a bug in checkrestart per se. checkrestart correctly (cf. proc(5)) assumed that /proc/[pid]/cmdline is a set of string that is separated by null bytes with a further null byte at the end.
The reason checkrestart runs into a problem here is that spamd rewrites its
command line in such a way that argv[0] is space separated. In particular
/usr/sbin/spamd contains the following:
sub daemonize {
# Pretty command line in ps
$0 = join (' ', $ORIG_ARG0, @ORIG_ARGV) unless would_log("dbg");
...
which incorrectly joins the path with spaces and not null bytes for
"prettiness". I would therefore argue that this is a bug in spamd and not in
checkrestart itself. It would still be nice if checkrestart could handle this
situation gracefully.
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