[linux-audio-user] LKML: Time to remove LSM (was Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks)

[Mark Knecht]

On 4/17/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:33 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Lee,
> >    Is that what is specifically required or do we need PAM updated AND
> > some new ebuild for set_rlimits?
>
> One or the other - doing both would be pointless.
>
> Actually if your distros glibc is also old then you may need to patch
> PAM rather than upgrade it.
>
> Basically set_rtlimits should be considered a stopgap measure to make
> non-root SCHED_FIFO work until your distro gets it together and updates
> their PAM and glibc ;-)
>
> See why I recommend just upgrading to a distro with a quicker release
> cycle?
>
> Lee
>
>

It appears that there has been a request in place for pam-0.99 for
some time now. The response from developer knowledgable folks is at
the end of this bug report:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87577

As for glibc, what is considered old and requires PAM to be patched?
Here's what is available on Gentoo:

mark at lightning ~ $ eix -I glibc
* sys-libs/glibc
     Available versions:  [P]2.2.5-r10 [P]2.3.2-r12
[P]2.3.3.20040420-r2 [P]2.3.4.20040619-r2 [P]2.3.4.20040808-r1
[P]2.3.4.20041102-r1 [P]2.3.4.20041102-r2 [P]2.3.4.20050125-r1 2.3.5
2.3.5-r1 2.3.5-r2 ~2.3.5-r3 *2.3.6 *2.3.6-r1 ~2.3.6-r2 ~2.3.6-r3
~2.4-r1 *2.4-r2
     Installed:           2.3.5-r2
     Homepage:            http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
     Description:         GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library

Thanks,
Mark

P.S. - Yeah - If a binary only distro actually worked for the 50 extra
things I need to run then I'd consider it but I've been down that path
with Fedora and am quite hesitant to go there again. ;-) - MWK