Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:16:18 -0800
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, "Jack O'Quin" <joq@io.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       paul@linuxaudiosystems.com, arjanv@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu,
       alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 01:42:51PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> > But I'm also still not convinced this policy can't be most flexibly
> > handled by a setuid helper together with the mlock rlimit.
> 
> Wait, why can't it be done with (to date fictitious) pam_prio, which
> simply calls sched_setscheduler?  It's already privileged while it's
> doing these things...

You certainly do not want to run everything at RT from login on.
That'd be bad.

Also, tying to UIDs rather than (UID, executable) is worrisome as
random_game_with_audio in Gnome might decide it needs RT, much to the
admin's surprise.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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