Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:49:05 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 |
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* Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> > > Yes. There's also the whole soft limit thing. > > > > i'm curious, how does this 'per-app' rlimit thing work? If a user has > > jackd installed and runs it from X unprivileged, how does it get the > > elevated rlimit? > > It needs a setuid launcher. It would be nice to be able to elevate the > rlimits of running processes but the API doesn't exist yet.
With a setuid launcher you need _zero_ kernel help to get SCHED_FIFO: if you have a launcher then already today it can just give SCHED_FIFO to jackd and be done with it!
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