On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Olivier Guilyardi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/25/2011 04:53 PM, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: > >> Wouldn't this be an improvement in regard to security? > > About this, security really doesn't seem like a pointless question to me. > Otherwise, why would all major distributions grant absolutely no realtime > privileges/runtime by default? Reading the JACK FAQ and editing some obscure > config file to gain realtime privileges isn't exactly user-friendly.. You > don't > need that kind of thing for realtime audio on OSX for example.
the point is that both OS X and contemporary linux have mechanisms that prevent RT scheduling from locking up the system. linux distributions have not adapted to this reality and thus they still continue to make RT scheduling inaccessible to users by default. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
