Mike Hearn wrote:
I wouldn't trust it. An app just misbehaving can trash important parts of your filesystem. Suid root is just a bad idea, windows being linux aware or not. Just for mild amusement I think someone being funky got a windows virus to work under wine if I recall correctly.
Anyway, interesting as this is, if we can't or shouldn't renice apps to a higher priority then we're back at square one. Are there any recommended ways of debugging scheduling problems Con, any tools we can use, or is it all down to guesswork and printf() timings?
We could always ship a custom version of renice that could be installed suid root, which would only allow changing the priorities of wine processes and/or up to a certain priority limit (preferably equivalent to Windows).
Rob
