Bug#656910: RFC: Making realtime prios and audio orthogonal

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-01-24 at 03:38pm, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> As outlined in #656910, "being in the audio group" and "having 
> realtime priorities" aren't separated at the moment.
> 
> To make these two independent, we'd need to use a different (new?) 
> group for realtime priorities.
> 
> Any suggestions? rtaudio maybe? Current idea:
> 
>   - modify jackd1 and jackd2 to depend on some new package, e.g.
>     jackd-common (provided by src:jack-defaults)
> 
>   - have jackd-common provide /etc/security/limits.d/rtaudio.conf
> 
>   - use adduser --system rtaudio in jackd-common's postinst scripts
> 
>   - maybe ask the user about adding user IDs to this new group
> 
> 
> Do we have to coordinate with debian-devel about the group name?

If specific to audio then I see no need to consult debian-devel@ but 
your summary hints that it might be a good idea to discuss with others 
needing realtime priority.


 - Jonas

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