From e7f4361bdecc9a912d49de16eb6289184334c946 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jesse Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 10:46:02 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Clarified pidof manual page to indicate pidof does not make multiple hops through symbolic links. --- man/pidof.8 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/pidof.8 b/man/pidof.8 index 6866cb3..518b09c 100644 --- a/man/pidof.8 +++ b/man/pidof.8 @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ that it returns PIDs of running programs that happen to have the same name as the program you're after but are actually other programs. Note that the executable name of running processes is calculated with .BR readlink (2), -so symbolic links to executables will also match. +so symbolic links to executables will also match. However, symbolic links to symbolic links will not match. .PP Zombie processes or processes in disk sleep (states Z and D, respectively) are ignored, as attempts to access the stats of these will sometimes fail.