Re: [linux-audio-user] Common linux audio layer

mchristoph.eckert@email-addr-hidden-online.de (Christoph Eckert) writes:

>> JACK does (recently and still only in CVS) support running
>> multiple concurrent servers. Each runs as a single user
>> and connects to a single card. So, multiple users could
>> each have their own card, or one user could use several
>> devices.
>
> But I could not start two sessions for two different users and
> both having sound support on the same card? OK, thanks, I
> understood.

You got it.

>> One-at-a-time sequential use of a single card by multiple
>> users works better now. There were formerly a number of
>> problems with it.
>
> Perhaps, some day, jack will be able to run as root and allow
> different users with priviledges to do so to make connections
> to it :) .

Not in anything like its current shared memory implementation.

> AFAIR I have heard the users always work as root. I really do
> not want to support this design.

Neither do I. :-)

JACK maintenance is hard enough without also attempting to be a
"trusted program" (i.e. inside the system security perimeter).

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  joq