Akshay Adiga <akshay.adiga@xxxxxxxxx> 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" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html