Op 17-10-12 23:18, Maarten Lankhorst schreef: > When implementing SIGXCPU handling for a thread boosted with rtkit to realtime > priority, I noticed that sched_setscheduler(somepid, SCHED_OTHER) would return > -EPERM because the thread was previously SCHED_RR | SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK, > and looking from the code that flag cannot be reset without sufficient rights. > Argh must not send patches right before going to bed, this leaves open a hole if current policy is sched_idle and when nice level is at a privileged level still..
Not that I've ever seen nice level do anything. Will resend after I've had some sleep. ~Maarten -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
