create commandline resource allocation wrapper

[joerg]

mdbus-allocate acts as a wrapper for arbitrary cmdline executables and allocates resources from framework via dbus, freeing them after the managed executable exits.

syntax:

mdbus-allocate -f -r <resource[,resource]> <cmd> <arguments>

-f --force : don't fail if resource can't be allocated. Without -f mdbus-allocate will not call 'cmd' and instead will exit with error code of ?? if any of the specified resources can not be allocated.

-r --resource resource : dbus-resource(s) to allocate and keep until 'cmd' exits

cmd: managed executable to be called

arguments: commandline arguments passed to 'cmd'

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This command can be used to call applications that shouldn't be suspended. For this invoke mdbus-allocate to request cpu-resource

[nicola.mfb]

Please take a look at:

​http://noko.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/noko/trunk/fsoraw/

and give me suggestions if it's wrong in some parts or has to be enanched.

[daniel]

This sounds really interesting. Bumping to ms6

[PaulFertser]

There's already an app by Nicola Ranaldo <nicola.ranaldo@…> that does exactly that and a bit more: ​http://noko.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/noko/trunk/fsoraw/

$ fsoraw-armel 
Usage: fsoraw [options] [--] command args
options:
        -h, --help                      show help and quit
        -l, --listresources             list resources (do not mix with -r)
        -r, --resources=res1,res2,...   allocate resource from FSO
        -f, --force                     continue execution even if some resource
                                        cannot be allocated
        -t, --timeout=MSECS             override default dbus timeout:25000
        -s, --stderr                    log to stderror too

examples:
         fsoraw --resources CPU,Display tangogps
         fsoraw -r Wifi -- mysupplicant -x -d -w

[stefan]

Joerg, does fsoraw gives you what you need? If yes, please close the bug.

[joerg]

fsoraw is great. closing ticket