Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:41:52 +0100
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
       "Jack O'Quin" <joq@io.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, paul@linuxaudiosystems.com,
       mingo@elte.hu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM
Message-ID: <20050111214152.GA17943@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:38:14PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> Yes but a bug in an app running as root can trash the filesystem.  The
> worst you can do with RT privileges is lock up the machine.

several filesystem and IO threads run at prio -10 but not RT.
That makes me a bit less sure of your statement....
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