Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262239AbVAEEDr (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:03:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262240AbVAEEDr (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:03:47 -0500 Received: from mail.joq.us ([67.65.12.105]:1705 "EHLO sulphur.joq.us") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262239AbVAEEDq (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 23:03:46 -0500 To: Alan Cox Cc: Lee Revell , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM References: <1104374603.9732.32.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050103140359.GA19976@infradead.org> <1104862614.8255.1.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050104182010.GA15254@infradead.org> <87u0pxhvn0.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> <1104865198.8346.8.camel@krustophenia.net> <1104878646.17166.63.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: "Jack O'Quin" Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:04:33 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1104878646.17166.63.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Alan Cox's message of "Wed, 05 Jan 2005 00:01:55 +0000") Message-ID: <87acroikry.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1104 Lines: 30 Alan Cox writes: > On Maw, 2005-01-04 at 18:59, Lee Revell wrote: >> We could do it the was OSX (our real competition) does if that would >> make people happy. They just let any user run RT tasks. Oh wait, but >> that's a "broken design", everyone knows that OSX is a joke, no one >> would use *that* OS to mix a CD or score a movie. :-) > > You can do that already, just make everyone root Surely you're joking. Is this actually a serious proposal? > The problem with uid/gid based hacks is that they get really ugly to > administer really fast. Especially once you have users who need realtime > and hugetlb, and users who need one only. This is why POSIX requires supplementary groups. All I had to do on my system was... # adduser joq audio That is considerably easier than hacking rlimits values via PAM. -- joq - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/