* Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > well, there's setrlimit, so you could add a jackd client callback that > > instructs all clients to change their RT_CPU_RATIO rlimit. In theory we > > could try to add a new rlimit syscall that changes another task's rlimit > > (right now the syscalls only allow the changing of the rlimit of the > > current task) - that would enable utilities to change the rlimit of all > > tasks in the system, achieving the equivalent of a global sysctl. > > We've talked about smth. similar in another thread. I'm not opposed > to the idea.
did that thread go into technical details? There are some rlimit users that might not be prepared to see the rlimit change under them. The RT_CPU_RATIO one ought to be safe, but generally i'm not so sure. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/