From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263211AbTJKCKD (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:10:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263212AbTJKCKD (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:10:03 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:55430 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263211AbTJKCKA (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:10:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:13:07 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: --- Cc: "Frederick, Fabian" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.7 "thoughts"] V0.3 Message-ID: <20031011021307.GH727@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , --- , "Frederick, Fabian" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031011040435.299bd3bc.grundig@teleline.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031011040435.299bd3bc.grundig@teleline.es> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:04:35AM +0200, --- wrote: > On thing me (as a user) would like to see is more user limits. > In particular; a (small) per-user mlock limit would be nice so a normal user > can mlock some memory to avoid buffer underruns without needing to give suid > permissions to cdrecord (which is what people uses now and guarantees you'll > have to update your cdrecord copy some day due to unavoidable security issues). > I wonder if this is a good wishlist item or just a stupid idea... cdrecord doesn't make sense because it requires privilege for device access anyway. -- wli