[2019-03-19 07:38] KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> > Package: sysvinit-utils > Version: 2.93-8 > Severity: normal > > I am opening this bug because I think the recently added flag '-f' in > pidof should be removed. It was intended to be used as a way to format > the PIDs according to printf-style formatters, but accepting > unsanitised input from the user is quite dangerous, as shown in > #924792. The proposed solution to #924792 was to let pidof -f > interpret only '%d' and '\n'. > > This is at least an unnecessary complication. pidof is already > printing the PIDs as integers (!), and any formatting can (but I would > say should/must) be done downstream by sed/awk/whatever. We can't add > a formatter to any single CLI command :\ > > Please remove the unneded '-f' flag. Unix is much much better than > that.
Somehow I missed this addition. For what is worth, I totally support
this request.
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