On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:15:54AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> a side note: JACK, when run in RT mode, launches its own maximal
> priority thread to perform exactly this function. all other RT threads
> run at lower priorities. i believe that it is not possible to use JACK
> to perform DOS attacks
>One problem with audio systems that
>a) runs as RT processes
>b) allows user loaded plugins
>
>Is that it is very simple to make a DOS (Denial of service) attack.
>This has resulted in that the feature to run arts in RT mode has been
>disabled... see artswrapper.c, search for NO_MORE_LOCAL_DOS_HO
Hi,
One problem with audio systems that
a) runs as RT processes
b) allows user loaded plugins
Is that it is very simple to make a DOS (Denial of service) attack.
This has resulted in that the feature to run arts in RT mode has been
disabled... see artswrapper.c, search for NO_MORE_LOCAL_DOS_HOLE
