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authorEric Andersen2001-12-06 14:52:32 +0000
committerEric Andersen2001-12-06 14:52:32 +0000
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parent06656f363de87846086f03c5e12541a66637858e (diff)
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If find_pid_by_name() had an error, it was returning -1, but storing
that into a pid_t, which is unsigned on a number archs. Furthermore, find_pid_by_name() would _never_ return an error if the intended proces was "init", but instead would return 1, meaning we would fail to work on 2.4.x kernels running an initrd... -Erik
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-rw-r--r--include/libbb.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/libbb.h b/include/libbb.h
index 2dcfa1f..a953b3c 100644
--- a/include/libbb.h
+++ b/include/libbb.h
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ extern void write_mtab(char* blockDevice, char* directory,
char* filesystemType, long flags, char* string_flags);
extern void erase_mtab(const char * name);
extern long atoi_w_units (const char *cp);
-extern pid_t* find_pid_by_name( char* pidName);
+extern long* find_pid_by_name( char* pidName);
extern char *find_real_root_device_name(const char* name);
extern char *get_line_from_file(FILE *file);
extern void print_file(FILE *file);