Just to add more context: the '-f' flag was apparently added upstream in commit aa6873b85b09a3ea292afc7bfd535c382b57d905:
http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git/commit/?id=aa6873b85b09a3ea292afc7bfd535c382b57d905 to solve Debian#571590 (whishlist). The easiest way out is to just revert the commit above if upstream wants to keep the flag. Patch attached. HND KatolaZ
Author: Vincenzo (KatolaZ) Nicosia
Closes: #924957
Date: Tue 19 Mar 2019 07:02:29 AM GMT
--- a/man/pidof.8
+++ b/man/pidof.8
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@
.IR omitpid[,omitpid...] ]
.RB [ \-o
.IR omitpid[,omitpid...]... ]
-.RB [ \-f
-.IR format ]
.B program
.RB [ program... ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -68,9 +66,6 @@
Tells \fIpidof\fP to omit processes with that process id. The special
pid \fB%PPID\fP can be used to name the parent process of the \fIpidof\fP
program, in other words the calling shell or shell script.
-.IP "-f \fIformat\fP"
-Tells \fIpidof\fP to format the process ids in the given \fIprintf\fP style.
-For example \fB" -p%d"\fP is useful for \fIstrace\fP.
.SH "EXIT STATUS"
.TP
.B 0
--- a/src/killall5.c
+++ b/src/killall5.c
@@ -947,7 +947,6 @@
printf("pidof usage: [options] <program-name>\n\n");
printf(" -c Return PIDs with the same root directory\n");
printf(" -h Display this help text\n");
- printf(" -f <format> Display PIDs in a given printf-style format\n");
printf(" -n Avoid using stat system function on network shares\n");
printf(" -o <pid> Omit results with a given PID\n");
printf(" -q Quiet mode. Do not display output\n");
@@ -997,7 +996,6 @@
int chroot_check = 0;
struct stat st;
char tmp[512];
- char *format = NULL;
omit = (OMIT*)0;
nlist = (NFS*)0;
@@ -1006,7 +1004,7 @@
if ((token = getenv("PIDOF_NETFS")) && (strcmp(token,"no") != 0))
flags |= PIDOF_NETFS;
- while ((opt = getopt(argc,argv,"qhco:f:sxn")) != EOF) switch (opt) {
+ while ((opt = getopt(argc,argv,"qhco:sxn")) != EOF) switch (opt) {
case '?':
nsyslog(LOG_ERR,"invalid options on command line!\n");
closelog();
@@ -1017,9 +1015,6 @@
case 'h':
pidof_usage();
exit(0);
- case 'f':
- format = optarg;
- break;
case 'o':
here = optarg;
while ((token = strsep(&here, ",;:"))) {
@@ -1116,14 +1111,9 @@
}
if ( ~flags & PIDOF_QUIET ) {
- if (format)
- printf(format, p->pid);
- else
- {
if (! first)
printf(" ");
printf("%d", p->pid);
- }
}
first = 0;
}
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