Trent Piepho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Billy Biggs wrote:
> > Applications requiring "low latency" even at the high numbers tvtime
> > requires like < 20ms should be run as root or at least at high
> > priority.
> 
> Have you made tvtime suid aware?  Let it run SUID root, request
> real-time priority and open RTC and video devices, and then drop
> privileges.

  We now call:

  setuid( getuid() );

  So, if tvtime is setuid root and you run it as a user, after abusing
our root priviledges we drop back to the running user's status.

  I figure that's a good starting point anyway.  It will be in the next
release of tvtime.

-- 
Billy Biggs
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