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[Jens Elkner <jel+ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Please read carefully! This bug is not about upstart-udev-bridge or any
other service but about PGREP . 'pgrep upstart-udev-bridge' is just an
example, which should work on any Ubuntu, i.e. to reproduce the problem!

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413699

Title:
  pkill|pgrep are buggy

Status in procps package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  'pgrep upstart-udev-bridge' should definitely spit out a pid, but it
  doesn't. When one uses the option -f than it actually prints the PID
  of the upstart-udev-bridge process. However using -f is a bad
  workaround, because than (at least wrt. the man page) the arguments
  and operands get included into the match, which may break scripts or
  even lead to security issues.

  I guess, the bug is, that p{grep|kill} strips off everything after the
  first '-' of the command before it actually tries to compare with the
  given operand (or something like that).

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