From d50a61956c032c9b80bee7dc58a931318d8f38da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Andersen
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:56:36 +0000
Subject: Implement suggestion from Adam Slattery, (don't default to killing
 closing bug #1190.

---
 libbb/find_pid_by_name.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'libbb')

diff --git a/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c b/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
index f335e9c..57decc6 100644
--- a/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
+++ b/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
@@ -97,8 +97,17 @@ extern pid_t* find_pid_by_name( char* pidName)
 			pidList[j++]=info.pid;
 		}
 	}
-	if (pidList)
+	if (pidList) {
 		pidList[j]=0;
+	} else if ( strcmp(pidName, "init")==0) {
+		/* If we found nothing and they were trying to kill "init", 
+		 * guess PID 1 and call it good...  Perhaps we should simply
+		 * exit if /proc isn't mounted, but this will do for now. */
+		pidList=xrealloc( pidList, sizeof(pid_t));
+		pidList[0]=1;
+	} else {
+		pidList[0]=-1;
+	}
 
 	/* Free memory */
 	free( pid_array);
@@ -165,10 +174,14 @@ extern pid_t* find_pid_by_name( char* pidName)
 
 	if (pidList)
 		pidList[i]=0;
-	else {
-		/* If we found nothing, guess PID 1 and call it good */
+	else if ( strcmp(pidName, "init")==0) {
+		/* If we found nothing and they were trying to kill "init", 
+		 * guess PID 1 and call it good...  Perhaps we should simply
+		 * exit if /proc isn't mounted, but this will do for now. */
 		pidList=xrealloc( pidList, sizeof(pid_t));
 		pidList[0]=1;
+	} else {
+		pidList[0]=-1;
 	}
 	return pidList;
 }
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