Joe.C writes:

    I've reported this bug in April and it still
    exists in 1.00-pre2. So I made patches for
    both 0.60.x and 1.00-pre2.  The patch is very
    simple, just use strncmp instead of strcmp.
    Please apply if it is OK.

   Here's the procedure to test this problem:
   Create a executable with very long name, say
   'test_1234567890123456' and execute it. Try
   using 'killall' or 'pidof' to find/kill this
   program.  Without this patch, you can't find
   the program.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c b/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
index b857c0bc7..77fa0179e 100644
--- a/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
+++ b/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include "libbb.h"
 
+#define COMM_LEN 16 /* synchronize with size of comm in struct task_struct 
+                                           in /usr/include/linux/sched.h */
+
+
 /* find_pid_by_name()
  *  
  *  Modified by Vladimir Oleynik for use with libbb/procps.c
@@ -46,7 +50,7 @@ extern long* find_pid_by_name( const char* pidName)
 #else
         while ((p = procps_scan(0)) != 0) {
 #endif
-                if (strcmp(p->short_cmd, pidName) == 0) {
+                if (strncmp(p->short_cmd, pidName, COMM_LEN-1) == 0) {
                         pidList=xrealloc( pidList, sizeof(long) * (i+2));
                         pidList[i++]=p->pid;
                 }