Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:26:03 -0400
From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] protect migration/%d etc from sched_setaffinity
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> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 16:16, Joe Korty wrote:
> 
> > Actually it is only 20 lines of changes .. 16 lines added, 4 deleted.
> 
> I know. But 16 new lines, including a new process flag, seems overkill.
> That is all I am saying. Just my opinion.
> 
> There are a _lot_ of things root can do wrong.
> 
> 	Robert Love


Hi Robert,
I don't consider SYS_CAP_NICE to be a typical 'root' thing at all.
Everything realtime needs it as part of normal operations.  I think
of it as an intermediate thing between 'ordinary desktop users' and
'root', and as such it should behave nicely, just like the
plain-vanilla services available to ordinary users.

I believe it is suboptimal to lump everything a normal desktop user
wouldn't normally do as 'root -- let the user beware'.

Joe
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