artswrapper suid?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 09:00 -0400, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 08:37 -0400, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> >> Why no suid for artswrapper?

> > why would sound stuff need to be setuid root ? the PAM console code will
> > make sound devices accessible to local users already.
> 
> It wants to set real time priority.

yes but for all the wrong reasons :)
it wants low latency response to the sound hardware (so that the buffers
don't underrun), and it makes the assumption that if it has real time
priority it is able to achieve that task better. I'm not convinced
that's the right relationship (and besides FC will provide the low
latency behavior already), sometimes running as realtime can make things
worse on the latency front, esp on the overall behavior they want.

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