> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 16:16, Joe Korty wrote:
>
> > Actually it is only 20 lines of changes .. 16 lines added, 4 deleted.
>
> I know. But 16 new lines, including a new process flag, seems overkill.
> That is all I am saying. Just my opinion.
>
> There are a _lot_ of things root can do wrong.
>
> Robert Love
Hi Robert,
I don't consider SYS_CAP_NICE to be a typical 'root' thing at all.
Everything realtime needs it as part of normal operations. I think
of it as an intermediate thing between 'ordinary desktop users' and
'root', and as such it should behave nicely, just like the
plain-vanilla services available to ordinary users.
I believe it is suboptimal to lump everything a normal desktop user
wouldn't normally do as 'root -- let the user beware'.
Joe
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