Re: [2.7 "thoughts"] V0.3

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:04:35AM +0200, --- wrote:
> On thing me (as a user) would like to see is more user limits.
> In particular; a (small) per-user mlock limit would be nice so a normal user
> can mlock some memory to avoid buffer underruns without needing to give suid
> permissions to cdrecord (which is what people uses now and guarantees you'll
> have to update your cdrecord copy some day due to unavoidable security issues).
> I wonder if this is a good wishlist item or just a stupid idea...

cdrecord doesn't make sense because it requires privilege for device
access anyway.


-- wli
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