Security policy oversight needed?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Nov 20 01:47:53 UTC 2009


Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> said:
>> * Grant high priority scheduling to a user process
> 
> I have complained about this.

Note that RealTimeKit tries hard to prevent users from starving the CPU with 
such real time processes. Of course it can still be a partial DoS and you 
probably don't want to allow that on a machine with multiple concurrent 
users, but it's not a free-to-all to lock the machine up.

        Kevin Kofler




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