/* * nice - run a command at low priority * * Gunnar Ritter, Freiburg i. Br., Germany, August 2002. */ /* * Copyright (c) 2003 Gunnar Ritter * * This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied * warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages * arising from the use of this software. * * Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, * including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute * it freely, subject to the following restrictions: * * 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not * claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software * in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be * appreciated but is not required. * * 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be * misrepresented as being the original software. * * 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. */ #if __GNUC__ >= 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4 || __GNUC__ >= 4 #define USED __attribute__ ((used)) #elif defined __GNUC__ #define USED __attribute__ ((unused)) #else #define USED #endif static const char sccsid[] USED = "@(#)nice.sl 1.10 (gritter) 5/29/05"; #include #include #include #include #include #include static unsigned errcnt; /* count of errors */ static char *progname; /* argv[0] to main() */ /* * perror()-alike. */ static void pnerror(int eno, const char *string) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", strerror(eno), string); errcnt++; } static void usage(void) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: usage: %s [-num] command\n", progname, progname); exit(2); } static void notnumeric(void) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: argument must be numeric.\n", progname); exit(2); } static int get_niceval(char *arg) { char *x; int n; n = strtol(arg, &x, 10); if (*x != '\0') notnumeric(); return n; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { int e, i; int niceval = 10; progname = basename(argv[0]); i = 0; while (++i < argc && argv[i][0] == '-') { switch (argv[i][1]) { case 'n': if (argv[i][2]) niceval = get_niceval(&argv[i][2]); else if (argv[i+1]) niceval = get_niceval(argv[++i]); else notnumeric(); break; case '-': if (argv[i][2] == '\0') { i++; goto optend; } /*FALLTHRU*/ case '0': case '1': case '2': case '3': case '4': case '5': case '6': case '7': case '8': case '9': niceval = get_niceval(&argv[i][1]); break; default: notnumeric(); } } optend: if (i >= argc) usage(); nice(niceval); execvp(argv[i], &argv[i]); e = errno; pnerror(e, argv[i]); return e == ENOENT ? 0177 : 0176; }