Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:13:07 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [2.7 "thoughts"] V0.3 |
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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.
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