pidof sometimes does not return PID if called with a full pathname
Issue
Trying to execute pidof on a full path to a command returns nothing.
If I just remove the leading '/' - it works...
[root@system ~]# pidof /my/process
[root@system ~]# pidof my/process
1234
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
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