Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:28:21 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
> > > next we
> > > $CAPABILITY for $FOO and we're headed straight to interface-hell.
> > 
> > "interface hell"?  Wow.
> > 
> > Still.  It seems to be what we deserve if all that fancy stuff we have
> > cannot address this very simple and very real-world problem.
> 
> please describe this "very simple and very real-world problem" in simple
> terms. Lets make sure "problem" and "solution" didnt become detached.
> 

Well others can do that better than I but I'd describe it as

- Audio apps need to meet their realtime requirements

- The way to implement that is to give them !SCHED_OTHER and mlockall
  capabilities.

- But they don't want to run as root.

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