Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:24:25 +0200 (CEST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SCHED_IDLE |
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On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > I believe I have created a rather 'safe' SCHED_IDLE patch > > > > I hope you enjoy it -- and don't forget to grab the changed > > rtnice utility: http://www.nl.linux.org/~riel/patches/rtnice.c > > If it is safe (looks so), why does it need special sysctl to enable? I > think that just dropping sysctl will be good.
I am not sure that it is safe in every case. There still might be possibilities for malicious users to exploit something so sysadmins are free to cover up that hole while the more daring users can find it for us :)
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