Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #806

From: Paul Barton-Davis (pbd@Op.Net)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 21:02:33 EST


>From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
>Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 02:04:16 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: Re: Linux 2.3.99pre9-2 JOB list
>
>... not to mention the fact that GUI suid-root anything is a
>_really_ scary idea,

perhaps you can explain how an audio application with a GUI that needs
to take advantage of SCHED_FIFO in some subset of its threads, and/or
mlock(2), can be run without suid (or sudo, though it seems that the
problems there are pretty similar) ?

do we have a SCHED_FIFO capability yet ?

--p

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