+/* helper function to ionice the given PID
+
+ there is no C header for ionice yet - just the syscall interface
+ so we use the binary from util-linux
+*/
+static bool
+ionice(int PID)
+{
+ if (!FileExists("/usr/bin/ionice"))
+ return false;
+ pid_t Process = ExecFork();
+ if (Process == 0)
+ {
+ char buf[32];
+ snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "-p%d", PID);
+ const char *Args[4];
+ Args[0] = "/usr/bin/ionice";
+ Args[1] = "-c3";
+ Args[2] = buf;
+ Args[3] = 0;
+ execv(Args[0], (char **)Args);
+ }
+ return ExecWait(Process, "ionice");
+}
+