Public bug reported:
In the current implementation, the call ioprio_set requieres admin
privileges to select the IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE scheduling class.
Although this is a sensible thing to require for messing with the
priorities of other users' processes, it shouldn't get in the way of
users *lowering* their own IO priority.
IMO if a user is allowed to kill, stop, nice, ... its processes, he/she
should also be allowed to stall them if so desires.
This policy prevents indexing daemons (trackerd) to select the IDLE
scheduling class. (See bug #138249).
** Affects: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ioprio_set shouldn't need CAP_SYS_ADMIN to lower IO priorities
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138846
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