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pidof was not returning PIDs of programs which were launched

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using a symbolic link. (ie /tmp/sleep when /tmp/sleep links to /usr/bin/sleep).
This is now fixed as we check both the realpath and symbolic path for processes.
In other words, "pidof /tmp/sleep" and "pidof /usr/bin/sleep" will return
the same PIDs when /tmp/sleep is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/sleep.
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@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ sysvinit (3.07) released; urgency=low
* Fixed killall5 so that processes in the omit list are
not sent any signals, including SIGSTOP.
* Fixed usage message for killall5 to be more accurate.
* pidof was not returning PIDs of programs which were launched
using a symbolic link. (ie /tmp/sleep when /tmp/sleep links to /usr/bin/sleep).
This is now fixed as we check both the realpath and symbolic path for processes.
In other words, "pidof /tmp/sleep" and "pidof /usr/bin/sleep" will return
the same PIDs when /tmp/sleep is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/sleep.
sysvinit (3.06) released; urgency=low