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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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diff --git a/procps/pidof.c b/procps/pidof.c
index 5a40288..9415827 100644
--- a/procps/pidof.c
+++ b/procps/pidof.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ extern int pidof_main(int argc, char **argv)
/* Looks like everything is set to go. */
while(optind < argc) {
- pid_t* pidList;
+ long* pidList;
pidList = find_pid_by_name( argv[optind]);
if (!pidList || *pidList<=0) {