[linux-audio-dev] Linux Security Module for realtime audio

[Clemens Ladisch]

Jesper Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:13:48PM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > Do they have a valid reason?  Or are they just imposing their paranoia on us
> > for fun?
>
> Their explanation is here:
>
> http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html

Good reasons, IMHO.

And I see no reason why drawing a colorful GUI should require realtime
privileges -- it's the other way round: the audio processing should
have priority over the GUI.

Seperating the audio engine and the GUI into different processes is
the unixy way anyway.


Regards,
Clemens