On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 22:20 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 17:56 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 02:48:46 +0200 > > Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > It's not a security issue if you're on a single user desktop/laptop, and > therefore something that could be configured up during installation. One > idea I had was to suggest having install "profiles" available - I'd love > to have an anaconda option I can click that will: > > * Add me to sudoers automatically (first thing I do on every Fedora/RHEL > system, and the most annoying thing missing from a standard install) > * Add me to various groups useful to desktop self-admin, etc. > * (Disable SELinux policy with a vengeance :P) > > > > Unfortunately on Linux we don't have anything in place that would > > > allow "safe" usage of realtime features. > > That's not true. You already have PolicyKit support and even look to see > if you have a policy. So that authorization could just be setup in > advance for pulseaudio if it's running on a desktop system. > > > 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. > > > yeah it's better to not need realtime, and just have a good enough > > scheduler instead ;-) > > I agree about the longer term. > > Jon. > > I have been fighting to get realtime working for a while on my computer I use for composition, the normal scheduler just does not cut it for this. While I agree that in the long run fixing that is the solution, in the sort term it would be nice not to leave these type of users out on a limb, or looking at other distros that do it by default. just my $0.02 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
