Bug 437716

Summary: pidof -x not finding shell scripts
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dan Kenigsberg <danken>
Component: sysvinitAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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let pidof -x find shell scripts, too none

Description Dan Kenigsberg 2008-03-16 22:35:13 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I ran (on fedora 8)
  python s.py &
and
  pidof -x s.py
returned nothing.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sysvinit-2.86-18.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. python s.py &
2. pidof -x s.py

Actual Results:
empty line

Expected Results:
pid of the shell (in this case, the python process) running s.py

Additional info:
Comment 1 Dan Kenigsberg 2008-03-16 22:41:20 UTC 
Created attachment 298221 [details]
let pidof -x find shell scripts, too

Please consider this patch; I don't see why requiring that the shell name would
equal the script name is reasonable.
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Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2008-12-08 20:25:29 UTC 
Won't work - in the case of your s.py, not only would it match:

  python s.py

but it would also match:

  vim s.py

and even:

  pidof s.py

The idea is that it matches the script if s.py itself is executable and ran directly.
Comment 4 Dan Kenigsberg 2008-12-14 18:36:10 UTC 
yep, you're right. maybe it should've resolved as notabug?
Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2008-12-16 14:57:34 UTC 
Yeah, that's probably better. Tweaking resolution.