guenter geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From reading these comments and taking a look at the mlockall call and > how it is used in jack, I understand that this might really be > very dangerous ... mlockall (MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE)
The requirement is for running realtime audio applications as an ordinary (non-root) user. This is a system-level security admin policy choice. Given that, the ability of such programs to crash or lock up the system is a given. There is nothing anyone can do about that. If that risk is not acceptable for your system, then don't run realtime audio applications on it. Running them as root would be even worse. The goal is to prevent these realtime apps from being able to accidentally or intentionally corrupt the filesystem or take over the network. These are *much* worse problems than crashing the system. -- joq
