Re: Separate taskset arguments from the command arguments

[yumkam@gmail.com (Yuriy M. Kaminskiy)]

Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga@gmail.com>
writes:

> I want to run a command which looks something like this :
>
> taskset -c 10 ycsb -p "redis_host=1234"
>
> The actual command is :
>
> ycsb -p "redis_host=1234"
>
> But argument -p "redis_host=1234" is taken by taskset as it argument
> and throws an error : Failed to set pid 0's affinity:
>
> -p "redis_host=1234" is an argument to ycsb command. shell/tasket
> misunderstands that and takes it as an argument for taskset.
>
> Is there a work around for this?

Normally, such problem are solved by inserting `--` before your command;
however, taskset have somewhat unusual parsing of arguments (-c is not
an "option with argument", but the flag), so it will be

  taskset -c -- 10 ycsb -p "redis_host=1234"