Re: [Jack-Devel] jack - audio group - package install

>>>> the kernel doesn't provide many choices. these rights do not exist on
>>>> a per-process level of granularity. they simply don't.
>>>>         
>>> Aren't CGROUPS just what Tobias suggests?
>>>       
>> true. i had forgotten our old nemesis, CGROUPs. as long as they are
>> correctly configured, then cgroups could be used. but they are even
>> harder to configure than PAM limits, so the likelihood that a distro
>> will get this right seems small. 

Ok, thanks for the hint. I had been looking at the problem from a higher 
perspective. The two things I had in mind were:
1. Either the kernel provides some kind of CAP_* for jackd to call the 
relevant kernel API itself, or
2. another (root) process can be used, doing something like 
"set_rt_prio([PID_OF_JACK])" on jacks request.

CGroups are quite another beast, I agree. Still, they might be part of a 
long-term solution.

  Tobias

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