On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > I'd prefer just X having a higher "mm nice level" or something.
>
> Which it has, because:
>
> 1) CAP_RAW_IO
> 2) p->euid == 0
Oh, I agree, but we might want to generalize this a bit so that root could
say "this process is important" and then drop root privileges and still
get "credited" for the fact that it's important.
It's not a big deal. It works for X right now.
Linus
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