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Peter Williams wrote: > Timothy Miller wrote: > >> >> >> We don't want user-space programs to have control over priority. > > > They already do e.g. renice is such a program. No one's talking about LOWERING priority here. You can only DoS someone else if you can set negative nice values, and non-root can't do that. > >> This is DoS waiting to happen. >> >>> 2. have a user space daemon poll running tasks periodically and >>> renice them if they are running specified binaries >> >> >> >> This is much too specific. Again, if the USER has control over this >> list, > > > It would obviously be under root control. And that means if someone wants to run a program which is not on the list but which requires (and deserves) higher priority, they cannot. - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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