From 0e604b3abc4e8a49da7d13720482c17e017bf0bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ermal <eri@pfsense.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:08:48 +0000
Subject: Make isvalidpid() know about pidfile the same as the other *pid
 functions do.(consistency)

---
 etc/inc/util.inc | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/inc/util.inc b/etc/inc/util.inc
index 90a5f9f..e4efbfb 100644
--- a/etc/inc/util.inc
+++ b/etc/inc/util.inc
@@ -42,11 +42,10 @@ function killbypid($pidfile) {
 }
 
 function isvalidpid($pid) {
-	$running = `ps -p $pid | wc -l`;
-	if(intval($running) > 1)
-		return true;
-	else 
-		return false;
+	$output = "";
+	exec("/bin/pgrep -F {$pid}", $output, $retval);
+
+        return (intval($retval) == 0);
 }
 
 function is_process_running($process) {
-- 
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