Comment 10 for bug 246735
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 246735] Re: status_of_proc() calls pidofproc() which calls kill, requiring ownership privileges on the process | #10 |
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:33:46PM -0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> I think it would be fine to remove the kill(1) bits entirely, but am not
> bothered if you want to leave it in either.
We discussed this and I conceded it would be advantageous to leave it in
because ps is in the procps package, which is not essential; using kill
first and falling back to ps avoids having to grow the dependency graph
given that procps will always be present (albeit not always configured) as
part of the "required" set.
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