On Tue, 23.06.09 01:38, Dennis Schulmeister ([email protected]) wrote:
> So after reading all those messages I'm somewhat left up wondering if > the addressed problem (real-time audio for desktop applications) really > is an existing problem. The same goes for the theoretical threat of a > rt-fork bomb. Just because in theory someone could write such a program > and make it run on a someone else's machine doesn't seem like enough > reasoning for implementing a protection mechanism on a large user base. > In theory there are much more real threats for the average user which > nobody cared to address. And it has been shown that in theory the > suggested protection mechanism can be circumvented, too. Take it from a desktop developer: it does make a difference if PA is RT or not. And there are no plans to make every media player RT. Nobody is suggesting that. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
