[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.4p1-2

[Linas]

Byron Clark wrote:
>> Unfortunately that only works if there is only one sshd process returned
>> by pidof.  Here's the case I'm worried about:
>>
>> /var/run/sshd.pid: 343
>> pidof sshd: 3433
>>      
> And the case where add ^$ around the pid breaks:
>
> /var/run/sshd.pid: 343
> pidof sshd: 343 2452 2453
>    

Yes of course. I foolishly only thought "how to avoid matching partial 
numbers"
despite being aware of the general problem.
What we need are word boundaries:  grep -q "\\b$(cat /var/run/sshd.pid)\\b"

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