Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:28:21 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | 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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