[linux-audio-user] 2.6.15.4, realtime-lsm, jackd -R,

[Jan Depner]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 21:04 -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 08:52:30PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > No, it's not that bad, but IMHO it's more of a pain than the realtime
> > LSM, or the PAM solution.
> 
> Does a process inherit its parent's RT rlimits?  I would expect them
> to work that way.  If so, it should be enough to run your display or
> window manager under set_rlimits.  Then, any app you started in that X
> session would automatically inherit the ability to request RT
> scheduling and mlock pages.

    I may be missing something here but, why would you run your window
manager as the same user that you use to run RT applications?  I
normally log in as Joe_User and then start my applications as a
privileged user (in my case root  because I'm lazy ;-)  In most window
managers/desktops it is pretty easy to start an app as a different user
with a desktop icon.  The only PITA is that you have to enter a password
to start the apps but you only do that once so it's not a big problem.

-- 
Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
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