Starting daemons in the background with start-stop-daemon

[Adam Heath <adam.heath@usa.net>]

I have made a wrapper to start-stop-daemon that had a new cmdline option, -B |
--background, that allows daemons to be started in the background
asynchronosly.  This would allow the login prompt to appear sooner, and would
make Debian appear to be a faster loading system.

Below is the script to do this.  It might be too late to do this for 2.0, but
I would like to see some descision on this for 2.1.

Adam
---
#!/bin/sh
back=0
rest=" "
while [ $# -gt 0 ];do
	if [ "$1" = "-B" -o "$1" = "--background" ];then
		back=1
		shift
		continue
	fi
	opt=$1;shift
	rest="$rest $opt"
	case $opt in
		--)	rest="$rest $*";shift $#;;
	esac
done
[ $back = 1 ] && echo -n "(background)" && bk="&"
eval /sbin/start-stop-daemon~ $rest $bk
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