The behaviour described, pidof not seeing processes in the "D" state, is
expected, correct, and documented in the pidof manual page. As it says
in the manual page, if yo uwant to see processes which are
uninterruptable or zombies then it is required to pass the "-z" command
line flag.
- Jesse
Package: sysvinit-utils
Version: 2.96-5
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation?
I tried to get a pid of a running 'dd' process.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective
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