[LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 23.06.09 01:38, Dennis Schulmeister (linux-audio-dev at windows3.de) wrote:

> So after reading all those messages I'm somewhat left up wondering if
> the addressed problem (real-time audio for desktop applications) really
> is an existing problem. The same goes for the theoretical threat of a
> rt-fork bomb. Just because in theory someone could write such a program
> and make it run on a someone else's machine doesn't seem like enough
> reasoning for implementing a protection mechanism on a large user base.
> In theory there are much more real threats for the average user which
> nobody cared to address. And it has been shown that in theory the
> suggested protection mechanism can be circumvented, too.

Take it from a desktop developer: it does make a difference if PA is
RT or not. 

And there are no plans to make every media player RT. Nobody is
suggesting that.

Lennart

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