Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 21:44 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:13 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > One of the best arguments I've heard for having a user-daemon sound server
> > is that it'll be far more receptive to dynamic reconfiguration via D-BUS
> 
> What reconfiguration would you want to do?

There is nothing more I love to hear than someone asking questions like
that.  That kind of thinking is what makes GNOME so great.  ^_^

> 
> > or
> > similar tools, and doesn't have to run as root.
> 
> Note with alsa, there is no other process at all, so even better from a
> security standpoint.

Not necessarily.  It means that all sound-using apps have to have access
to the sound device.  One possible (worst case scenario) problem with
having all those apps have access is if a bug is present in the kernel-
level sound system, local users could exploit it, while with a sound
server controlled by SELinux (Sickeningly Elaborate Linux?) or some
similar mechanism guarantees that users can't run malicious code that
accesses the device files.

No, it's not the greatest reason, just a minor tidbit to keep in mind.

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