On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:40:02PM +1100, Peter Williams wrote: > The granting of the ability to switch to and from RT mode should require > a means to specify which users it applies to and also which programs it > applies to. The RT rlimits mechanism doesn't meet these criteria.
a) rlimits are per-process b) rlimits are typically administered per-user c) any user can trivially gain any privilege of any process they own so in some sense per-process limits are meaningless So rlimits are in fact as granular as can be, both in theory and in practice. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
