startproc -p -i does not work together with -f

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

Situation

startproc is used to start processes identified by path of the executable.
Several options allow e.g. use of alternate pid files or to ignore a pid.
Together with option "-f" both "-p" (alternate pid) and "-i" (ignore pid) don't seem to work.,

Resolution

This is expected behaviour, yet the manpage is a bit misleading here
and seems to indicate that these options work together:

startproc [-f] [...] [-p pid_file] [-i ignore_file] ...

"-f" forces the process to be started regardless of any other other option that
might prevent starting the process or alter .

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