Re: PulseAudio

[David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 16:07 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:44 -0500, xiphmont xiph org wrote:
> > On 2/27/07, William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu> wrote:
> > > Hi Monty,
> > >
> > > On 2/27/07, xiphmont xiph org <xiphmont xiph org> wrote:
> > > > An earlier question still stands, and it is central: does UID ==
> > > > console session ID?
> > >
> > > To me, this is very much like asking "Does UID == $DISPLAY"?  And the
> > > answer of course is - not in general.
> > 
> > I am asking so that the answer is a documented-- and thought about--
> > instead of being a nebulous assumption.  For one, it will be difficult
> > to have true session-unique emulation support because those interfaces
> > used /dev permissions with no concept of session, only uid and gid.
> 
> If the emu system daemon runs as root you, then /dev/dsp and friends
> would only need to be accessible by root assuming the emu system daemon
> passes the fd to the PA instances. 

Eh, scrap that. We'd need to put ACL's on them anyway. The emu daemon
would do additional checking though.

    David