Implement suggestion from Adam Slattery, (don't default to killing closing bug #1190.

git-svn-id: svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox@3003 69ca8d6d-28ef-0310-b511-8ec308f3f277

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c b/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
index f335e9c1f..57decc69c 100644
--- a/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
+++ b/libbb/find_pid_by_name.c
@@ -97,8 +97,17 @@ extern pid_t* find_pid_by_name( char* pidName)
                         pidList[j++]=info.pid;
                 }
         }
-        if (pidList)
+        if (pidList) {
                 pidList[j]=0;
+        } else if ( strcmp(pidName, "init")==0) {
+                /* If we found nothing and they were trying to kill "init", 
+                 * guess PID 1 and call it good...  Perhaps we should simply
+                 * exit if /proc isn't mounted, but this will do for now. */
+                pidList=xrealloc( pidList, sizeof(pid_t));
+                pidList[0]=1;
+        } else {
+                pidList[0]=-1;
+        }
 
         /* Free memory */
         free( pid_array);
@@ -165,10 +174,14 @@ extern pid_t* find_pid_by_name( char* pidName)
 
         if (pidList)
                 pidList[i]=0;
-        else {
-                /* If we found nothing, guess PID 1 and call it good */
+        else if ( strcmp(pidName, "init")==0) {
+                /* If we found nothing and they were trying to kill "init", 
+                 * guess PID 1 and call it good...  Perhaps we should simply
+                 * exit if /proc isn't mounted, but this will do for now. */
                 pidList=xrealloc( pidList, sizeof(pid_t));
                 pidList[0]=1;
+        } else {
+                pidList[0]=-1;
         }
         return pidList;
 }