20 Jul
2009
20 Jul
'09
1:37 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Paul Davis wrote:
the right way, and discourage the wrong way. it is
crazy to claim that
they simply want to make things easily accessible to end users - the
debian packagers, for example, have argued that using SCHED_{FIFO,RR}
is wrong and that no app should be using memlock. so, they *do* take
positions ... i'm just saying they need a new one, and that is that
making lower nice values available for *this* purpose is wrong. there
may, of course, be other reasons to permit it.
As much as Debian tries to be a general purpose OS, I've found that they
tend to be most at home thinking about multiuser servers and multiple
user Linux workstations, after the style of old Sun machines. They're
really good at that, but they're definitely not musicians.
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