Re: [PATCH] Realtime LSM

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 19:34, Chris Wright wrote:
>> The mlock() bit is unecessary now.  Use rlimits on the audio users.
>> Which leaves realtime bits, plus others.  I had a more generic module
>> (per-capability) that would be a superset of this.  Perhaps that's a
>> better fit.  I'm travelling this week, so forgive the spotty replies.

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:18:06PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> I think this would be fine.  All we need is a way to allow users to run
> SCHED_FIFO processes and use mlockall() without being root and without
> having to patch the kernel.  It's a pretty simple requirement.

Please construct a entitlement/permission checking scheme for this that
is not so lax as removing permissions checks altogether conditionally
on some sysctl.


-- wli
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