> Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> wrote:
> >
> > Lock out users from changing the cpu affinity of those per-cpu system
> > daemons which cannot survive such a change, such as migration/%d.
>
> Generally we prefer to not add code which purely protects root from making
> mistakes. Once the sysadmin has nuked his box he'll learn to not do it
> again.
I'd like to be able to write shell scrips that operate on the set of
/proc/[0-9]* without having to know which of the ever-changing list
of processes need to be avoided and which not.
And it's not really root. It's a SYS_CAP_NICE capability. All
realtime apps or their admins will have that capability as a matter
of course in their normal daily operations.
Joe
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