[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)

[Ian Jackson]

Daniel Povey writes ("Bug#719273: Acknowledgement (sysvinit-utils: /bin/pidof fails when there are stuck NFS mount points, preventing shutdown)"):
> We're going to check it out early next week, whether it still applies.
> 
> The bug it fixes is a situation where pidof reaches a process that's in a bad
> state such as D or Z, that might have an executable on a stuck mount point or
> something like that, and gets stuck, preventing system maintenance tasks or
> shutdown.

Yes.  The principle of the patch LGTM.  Hence my tagging the bug
accordingly.

Thanks for your persistence.

Ian.