David Zeuthen wrote:
Probably the right thing is to allow the process to run as realtime if,
and only if, the user is logged into the local console. So I'd rather
people try to figure out how to do that instead of papering over it with
group membership and harassing the user with pointless questions.
Thanks.
I see your point.
But if I may - using realtime groups for JACK is pretty much standard
practice in the Linux audio community for Fedora and similar
distributions. Spend some time on the LAU (Linux Audio Users) mailing
list, actually go ahead and install and test jackd, qjackctl, a couple
synths and a sequencer and you'll see what I mean.
I'm not saying it's the best solution. I'm just saying this has been
used for a long time and there were no riots in the LAU community over
the real or perceived issues of this method.
Also, allowing any local user realtime privileges may open up other
problems. Debian has a special user group (the "audio" group) for such
things. The examples may probably continue.
I think the problem that LAU is facing is that the things that they do
are not widely known and understood. _That_ is the biggest hurdle in
integrating advanced audio features in mainstream distributions.
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