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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Eric Andersen
2001-12-06 14:52:32 +00:00
parent 06656f363d
commit b24d65659f
7 changed files with 15 additions and 27 deletions

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@ -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);