[procps] Re: Adopting 'pidof' from sysvinit-tools
- From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx>
- To: procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 23:56:12 +0200 (CEST)
On Friday 2013-05-17 23:50, Craig Small wrote:
>On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:27:15PM -0400, Jaromir Capik wrote:
>> Should I take the killall5 source, strip it and introduce
>> as a new tool (directly called 'pidof' without linking)?
>It's been a while, why was this tool moving from packages again?
>Are the "source package" guys happy about the move?
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by "linking" here. If it is ok to move I'd
>look at the code, make sure that it is what we are after and then
>introduce it. Old tools like pidof often can have quite crufty code
>that was a good idea 2 decades ago.
pidof is like a safer pgrep.. no regexes and only whole names.
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