[linux-audio-dev] Please test the RT rlimits patch for audio

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 08:13 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:32:32AM EST, Jody McIntyre wrote:
> > The RT rlimits patch (nice-and-rt-prio-rlimits.patch) has been proposed
> > as a solution to allow audio users to run their applications with
> > realtime priorities.  While more complicated to configure, it's a much
> > cleaner patch than realtime-lsm and it's likely to get merged soon _if_
> > enough audio users test it and confirm that it works.
> > 
> > To encourage this, I have created a wiki page containing installation
> > instructions, links to prebuilt PAM packages, etc:
> > http://www.steamballoon.com/wiki/Rlimits
> 
> Some distros, like Slackware do not use pam. How could this patch still 
> be used?

Well, how do you implement rlimits without PAM?

Lee