Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:21:42 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM |
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* Matt Mackall (mpm@selenic.com) wrote: > 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.
Yup, true.
> 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.
Hmm, well, the pam_limit approach has that problem.
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