On 24 May 2005, at 17:55, Robert Olson wrote: >> And assuming that the OS was a realtime OS and thus could actually >> provide >> timing assurances to applications. > > I know as of a couple years ago the hardcore linux audio folks were > doing exactly this; I don't know the current state of the realtime > mods for linux. > > Anyone know if XP or MacOS provides any such support?
They all provide limited real-time support. I can't speak for the vic folks, but for rat we intentionally ignored this support, since it exposes a number of security issues (you have to make the application suid root and carefully drop privileges after enabling real-time scheduling) and didn't seem to offer much benefit. Colin
