I understand that it's not safe, but does commenting it out break anything
inside PA that I'm not aware of?
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On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:56 PM, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <rud...@rudd-o.com>
wrote:
> On 01/07/2020 18.32, jtharkey wrote:
>
>> In the source I found this in daemon/main.c:
>>
>> if (conf->system_instance && !conf->disable_shm) {
>> pa_log_notice(_("Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode."));
>> conf->disable_shm = true;
>> }
>>
>> I commented that out and built it, things seemed to work and work faster.
>> Will commenting that out have some side effect I'm not aware of?
>
> Yes, SHM mode is not safe when multiple users are using it. SHM will give you
> more performance but hostile users may compromise your PulseAudio daemon.
>
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> Rudd-O
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