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

[Felipe Sateler]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:38, Adrian Knoth <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 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?

I think we should. There are probably other applications that need rt
priorities.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler