From d213a53ebdc9e1ac70bae7e75071e00ab681ab87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 20:50:52 +0000
Subject: added the ability to 'nice' daemons

---
 rc.d/init.d/functions | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'rc.d')

diff --git a/rc.d/init.d/functions b/rc.d/init.d/functions
index 9fadf536..f40ace44 100755
--- a/rc.d/init.d/functions
+++ b/rc.d/init.d/functions
@@ -15,10 +15,13 @@ export PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
 # A function to start a program.
 daemon() {
 	# Test syntax.
-	if [ $# = 0 ]; then
-		echo "Usage: daemon {program}"
-		return 1
-	fi
+	case $1 in
+	    '')    echo '$0: Usage: daemon [+/-nicelevel] {program}'
+	           return 1;;
+	    -*|+*) nicelevel=$1
+	           shift;;
+	     *)    nicelevel=0;;
+	esac
 
         # Save basename.
         base=`basename $1`
@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ daemon() {
 	ulimit -c 0
 
 	# And start it up.
-	$*
+	nice -n $nicelevel "$@"
 }
 
 # A function to stop a program.
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