Hi,
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:07:47PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 19:42 -0500, Robert Shearman wrote:
> > You're forgetting the reason why we need the suid root binary -
> > because allowing processes to set their priority as realtime (or
> > otherwise very high) leaves the s
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 19:42 -0500, Robert Shearman wrote:
> You're forgetting the reason why we need the suid root binary -
> because allowing processes to set their priority as realtime (or
> otherwise very high) leaves the system open to a trvial DoS attack.
> Not only do the startup code paths n
Mike Hearn wrote:
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:29:56 -0500, Robert Shearman wrote:
2. setuid binaries make
sysadmins nervous and would require a security audit by us. Yes, they
don't need to make it setuid, but then the people who do could run their
programs as root anyway.
Presumably only the c
On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 13:29:56 -0500, Robert Shearman wrote:
> > wineserver would need to be a setuid program but it could set
> > CAP_SYS_NICE at startup and immediately reduce it's privileges back to
> > normal.
>
> There are a number of problems:
> 1. I don't think that will work yet as the serv
Robert Reif wrote:
Robert Shearman wrote:
Robert Reif wrote:
Are there any plans or is anyone working on mapping Windows
SetProcessClass and SetThreadPriority support to linux process
priorities on kernels that support CAP_SYS_NICE?
Mapping Win32 thread priority levels to Linux nice levels is fair
Robert Shearman wrote:
Robert Reif wrote:
Are there any plans or is anyone working on mapping Windows
SetProcessClass and SetThreadPriority support to linux process
priorities on kernels that support CAP_SYS_NICE?
Mapping Win32 thread priority levels to Linux nice levels is fairly
trivial, but co
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 14:04, Robert Shearman wrote:
> The
> last time a discussion like this came up, we (Wine developers and Cedega
> developers) requested a way of changing a thread's relative priority
> within a process (without affecting the overall CPU time the process
> gets)
This is far from t
Robert Reif wrote:
Are there any plans or is anyone working on mapping Windows
SetProcessClass and SetThreadPriority support to linux process
priorities on kernels that support CAP_SYS_NICE?
Mapping Win32 thread priority levels to Linux nice levels is fairly
trivial, but convincing kernel develop
