Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 437716
pidof -x not finding shell scripts
Last modified: 2014-03-16 23:12:59 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051202 Fedora/1.5-0.fc4 Firefox/1.5 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:
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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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.
yep, you're right. maybe it should've resolved as notabug?
Yeah, that's probably better. Tweaking resolution.