Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:10:46 +0100 From: Volker Stolz <stolz@hyperion.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> To: Ian <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: idprio Message-ID: <20020326121046.A3952@margaux.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <B8C50FCA.B72F%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> References: <3C9FB98C.BB0F4621@mindspring.com> <B8C50FCA.B72F%freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
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In local.freebsd-hackers, you wrote:
> Speaking of idprio... I liked the good old days (3.x) when you didn't have
> to be root to use the command. Given that idprio can be used to raise
> priorities as well as lower them, I can see the point of having some
> restrictions, but shouldn't it be possible to structure the code such that a
> non-root user can lower but not raise the priority on a process they own?
It's in the "BUGS" section:
BUGS
...
Under FreeBSD system calls are currently never preempted, therefore non-
realtime processes can starve realtime processes, or idletime processes
can starve normal priority processes.
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Volker Stolz * stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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