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