[Bug 306961] Re: start-stop-daemon cannot set a process's IO priority

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** Changed in: dpkg (Debian)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  start-stop-daemon cannot set a process's IO priority

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “dpkg” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dpkg

  I'm currently packaging a new upstream version of preload for Jaunty.
  The Intrepid version currently ships a patch to set the IO priority of
  the preload daemon via a command-line switch to preload. However,
  upstream have not adopted this patch and have implemented their own
  fix for setting the IO priority of the daemon, by running it with
  ionice from the init script.

  So, I have a dilemma:
  1) I could keep the Ubuntu patch for setting the IO priority, but this won't get accepted upstream.
  2) I could adopt the upstream init script, which wraps the daemon with ionice (but doesn't use start-stop-daemon).

  Neither option is ideal. The ideal option would be for me to use
  start-stop-daemon to run preload and set its IO priority. However,
  start-stop-daemon cannot currently do this.

  I've attached a patch that should fix this

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