[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#571590: Arbitrary output format for pidof

[Philipp Marek]

Package: sysvinit-utils
Version: 2.87dsf-8.1
File: /sbin/killall5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

More often than not I'm using pidof to get a list of PIDs for use
with strace. Sadly I always had to re-format the output, so that it
includes the "-p" part needed by strace.

Here's a patch to allow arbitrary output formats in pidof;
documentation included, but please check my english.


Please apply in the next version; thank you very much.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.89-4   SELinux runtime shared libraries

sysvinit-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils suggests:
pn  sash                          <none>     (no description available)

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