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On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:14:20PM -0700, Billy Biggs wrote:
> It's not like I'm demanding the app be installed setuid root. But for
> it to work, you need guarentees of latency etc. I don't see how we can
> give that to user applications without creating security holes.
FWIW, I've heard that the pre-emptible kernel patches to Linux improve
latency a great deal.
> Still, I don't like the attitude that we should disallow users to use
> the capabilities of their hardware completely because the security of a
> standalone DVD playback machine might be compromised.
No one's stopping you from coding an implementation that requires root
access, and no one's telling you that can't or shouldn't do so
particularly in an embedded environment, where the superuser/user
distinction isn't important.
What I'm telling you is that DVD playback software that has to be setuid
root, or run only by the root user, is a very unpalatable prospect to
most general-purpose distributions. I think that is the audience that
most interests the current developers of XvMC, but I urge them to
correct me if I'm wrong.
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