Public bug reported: 'pgrep upstart-udev-bridge' should definitely spit out a pid, but it doesn't. When one uses the option -f than it actually prints the PID of the upstart-udev-bridge process. However using -f is a bad workaround, because than (at least wrt. the man page) the arguments and operands get included into the match, which may break scripts or even lead to security issues.
I guess, the bug is, that p{grep|kill} strips off everything after the first '-' of the command before it actually tries to compare with the given operand (or something like that). ** Affects: procps (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Package changed: system-config-kickstart (Ubuntu) => procps (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413699 Title: pkill|pgrep are buggy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/+bug/1413699/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs