[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#738855: initscripts: Skip killing process starting with @

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-41
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

There is convention starting that processes whos name starts with '@'
shouldn't be killed. It is used to indicate that process is needed to
manage root device / cleanly unmount the root filesystem.

At least mdadm supports it for it's 'mdmon' process which is daemon
needed to manage containers (aka fakeraid controllers - Intel Matrix
Raid and DDF).

I've implemented a patch using pgrep, thus it's optional code in
sendsigs if pgrep is not available.

Regards,

Dimitri.

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