On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:07:52 +0200
Alistair Crooks a...@pkgsrc.org wrote:
Sorry for replying to an old thread, I'm still catching up with mail :)
i've found this some what annoying. IMO, we should have a a way to say
let normal users do this. i'm not sure sysctl is the right place, but
I've just had my first occasion to play with the processor affinity
code, via porting some code from linux. It was very straightforward,
but there's one glaring difference: linux doesn't (by default, anyway)
require root to use their sched_setaffinity(), while we do require root
(by default)
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 01:03:14PM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
I don't pretend to understand the security ramifications regarding
processor affinity; I do wonder, however, whether it warrants
requiring elevated privilege (and possible exposure via other code
in the process which doesn't
On 28.08.2011 22:03, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
I've just had my first occasion to play with the processor affinity
code, via porting some code from linux. It was very straightforward,
but there's one glaring difference: linux doesn't (by default, anyway)
require root to use their
