On Sun, 05.10.08 20:29, Jon Masters (jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > Hi, > > Can I suggest that we consider adding new desktop users on a fresh > install to pulse-rt by default? Or, put another way, does anyone think > this is a particularly bad idea to be doing? It's a security issue. If you add a user to pulse-rt he basically got the power to block the CPU indefinitely and thus freeze the machine. Unfortunately on Linux we don't have anything in place that would allow "safe" usage of realtime features. There have been steps in the right direction (like real-time group scheduling, RLIMIT_RTTIME), but that is still a royal PITA to use or trivial to circumvent. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
