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

[Jens M Andreasen]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 09:08, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Jesper Anderson wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 

If the GUI is not running in realtime, then things like changing the
patch number from the midi stream won't be reflected instantaniously on
screen. To the contrary: You can almost imagine SuperMario running up
and down the interface with his little brushes, slowly repainting each
and every knob and slider :-) This happens even if the realtime audio
engine is near idle. 

The audio engine can still have priority over the GUI. That is to say:
The GUI is another realtime process albeit with a much lower priority
(than the audio engine.)

cheers // Jens M Andreasen

> Seperating the audio engine and the GUI into different processes is
> the unixy way anyway.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Clemens
> 
>