Re: Pulseaudio

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 01:20 +1000, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> Yes, that's the general case, and the way (for example) Jack does it too.
> Both Jackd and PA are very careful to drop the root privilege first thing on
> startup. Nevertheless, even that is no longer necessary - on recent kernels,
> non-root daemons can be configured to be allowed RT privileges using
> rtlimits/PAM [1]

There's also the thing that a real-time process needs to be written in
an extremely careful way; basically if it spins it's game over for your
system. I know Lennart is doing this the right way in PA by having a
baby sitter process (also RT, higher priority) looking after PA.

      David