[linux-audio-user] Some various questions about system configuration..

[Wolfgang Hoffmann]

> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 17:08 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 17:01 -0500, Dana Olson wrote:
> > > This is certainly beyond the scope of my current knowledge. I would
> > > like to help, but I don't think I can research and learn that all
> > > before the deadline. Do you know anyone who would help out with this?
> > >
> >
> > In theory it should be easy - bash, PAM, and glibc all support the new
> > rlimits in their development versions, I just have to backport the
> > patches to whatever is in Dapper right now... we'll see how hard that
> > is.  The bash maintainers have been helpful, and hopefully that glibc
> > patch still applies...
>
> Can someone point me to the patch against PAM 0.79, I remember it was
> posted here a while back...
>
> Lee

Lee,

I saw your ancient bugreport #17348 
(https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/17348), Will Dyson 
added a patch recently 
(http://librarian.launchpad.net/1510182/pam-rtlimits.patch) to it which seems 
to be good (it works for me on Kubuntu Dapper).

As mentioned by Dana, I've added a howto for rtprio-aware PAM on Dapper to his 
wiki at http://ubuntustudio.com/wiki/index.php/Rlimits-Aware_PAM_with_Dapper

Concerning glibc and bash, there are patches at 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2005-06/msg00005.html and for bash 
in Fedora CVS at 
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/bash/devel/bash-ulimit.patch

I've patched glibc-2.3.5 and bash on a linuxfromscratch-based system 
successfully, but I can't tell whether these work on Dapper, since bash 
failed to rebuild for me (unpatched). I'm new to Debian packaging, so maybe I 
screwed something up.

I'm very interested to see this move into Dapper before freeze, so if I can 
help, please ask me to.

Wolfgang