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procps package

  1. Bug #1174911
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1174911

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Removed by request (removed3425744) wrote : Re: pgrep does not correctly match the input of the user against the process name

Edit: Meh, on looking at the manpage I remembered the argument is a pattern which can make the above very tricky. Alternatively pgrep could really fallback to /proc/_pid_/cmdline on failure or use -f as default.