[mythtv] [PATCH] security update for realtime priority

Doug Larrick doug at ties.org
Tue Nov 2 23:04:24 UTC 2004


Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Won't this produce a lot of error messages if myth is not running as root?
> We should continue to support that configuration.

Actually, it doesn't.  There's only one call that will fail as non-root, 
and I don't check its return status.  The rest are 
allocating/deallocating memory, setting flags, and such -- anybody can 
do that.

-Doug
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