Package: sysvinit-utils Version: 2.93-8 Severity: normal I am opening this bug because I think the recently added flag '-f' in pidof should be removed. It was intended to be used as a way to format the PIDs according to printf-style formatters, but accepting unsanitised input from the user is quite dangerous, as shown in #924792. The proposed solution to #924792 was to let pidof -f interpret only '%d' and '\n'.
This is at least an unnecessary complication. pidof is already printing the PIDs as integers (!), and any formatting can (but I would say should/must) be done downstream by sed/awk/whatever. We can't add a formatter to any single CLI command :\ Please remove the unneded '-f' flag. Unix is much much better than that. KatolaZ
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