On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:10:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Question: have these problems been observed with other audio apps? With a > similar severity and frequency? Other audio apps? There are increasingly few of them :) JACK is a sound server of sorts, and for many of us its the only thing that talks to the hardware. > > Unfortunately, if you run the JACK daemon as root you must also run > > all its clients that way. > > Maybe Jack could switch UIDs and drop privileges after acquiring rt policy? It needs to keep them so that it can confer the SCHED_FIFO policy onto the audio threads of client that connect to it. - Steve
