Re: FW: jackd/ audio apps mini policy
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 01:27, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness <zen@aaroncommercial.com> writes:
>
> > From: Matthias Urlichs
> > > Hi, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> > >
> > > > So far, no one is sure why CAP_SYS_RESOURCE is needed, but we find
> > > > that mlockall() fails without it.
> > >
> > > For good reason. The resource in question is physical memory. You could
> > > lock all the free memory with this program (thereby condemning it to swap
> > > death) if you're not VERY careful.
>
> Who is Matthias Urlichs? Has he not been following this discussion?
>
> Is he able to do anything about this mess? How can we contact him?
I copied this email from debian-mentors@l.d.o.
You could reply on that list, or even to him direct I guess.
cheers
zen
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