Ainsi parlait Han Boetes :
> Laurent Culioli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Le Samedi 6 Septembre 2003 12:14, Frederic Crozat a �crit :
> > > Yeah, I saw that but I don't think it is related to /dev/rtc..
> > > tvtime is probably trying to nice itself to real-time, which is only
> > > permitted for root. Anyway, it still works great and latest version
> > > has now a menu.. I think we will soon be able to replace xawtv with
> > > tvtime as the default TV app :)
> >
> > in the faq ( http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/help.html#performance ) ,
> > there is somes tips to have better performance , but for maximum
> > performance you need to run as root ( there is the same "problem" with
> > cdrecord if you need to have high priority and buffer on cdwriter
> > device ) , what do you tink to segid "video" tvtime like cdrecord ?
> > like this : root.video rws r-s r-x ?
>
> That's too much. You don't give an app root permissions when it needs
> real time priority, you give it real time priority. IE make a wrapper.
Can you explain it a bit more ?
AFAIK, there is privilege separation in default kernel allowing to just give
some root privileges, and not others.
Moreover, tvtime seems to be designed to drop root privileges once real time
priority acquired, see the URL above.
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