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Use readlink() instead of stat() to check processes. This shold avoid

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hanging if NFS mounts are not responding.

Default to showing processes in the uninterruptable state (D).
The -z flag no longer affects whether processes in D state are shown.

The -z flag does still toggle whether zombie (Z) processes are shown.
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Jesse Smith
2021-10-21 14:44:55 -03:00
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@@ -66,9 +66,12 @@ a status of true or false to indicate whether a matching PID was found.
Scripts too - this causes the program to also return process id's of
shells running the named scripts.
.IP \-z
Try to detect processes which are stuck in uninterruptible (D) or zombie (Z)
Try to detect processes which are stuck in zombie (Z)
status. Usually these processes are skipped as trying to deal with them can cause
pidof to hang.
pidof or related tools to hang. Note: In the past pidof would ignore processes
in the uninterruptable state (D), unless the \-z flag was specified. This is no
longer the case. The pidof program will find and report processes in the D state
whether \-z is specified or not.
.IP "-d \fIsep\fP"
Tells \fIpidof\fP to use \fIsep\fP as an output separator if more than one PID
is shown. The default separator is a space.