Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Linux Security Module for realtime audio
From: Clemens Ladisch (clemens_AT_ladisch.de)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 10:08:08 EET
Jesper Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 12:13:48PM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > Do they have a valid reason? Or are they just imposing their paranoia on us
> > for fun?
>
> Their explanation is here:
>
> http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
Good reasons, IMHO.
And I see no reason why drawing a colorful GUI should require realtime
privileges -- it's the other way round: the audio processing should
have priority over the GUI.
Seperating the audio engine and the GUI into different processes is
the unixy way anyway.
Regards,
Clemens
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