killproc() kills an unexpected process in the case of PID reuse

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Issue

  • killproc() kills an unexpected process in the case of PID reuse.
  • This occurs when a process stopped in its initscript with killproc takes a while to stop on SIGTERM and during that time, the pid gets reused.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • initscripts

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