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On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Josh Cepek wrote: |
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> > lapitopi gyuszk # snice -15 X |
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> As already pointed out, running process with a nice value less than 0 |
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> can only be done by root, and it's usually a really bad idea to run |
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> your entire X session as root. X (and applications running under X) |
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> involve a lot of code, and vulnerabilities can exist in this code. |
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I think you don't know how X runs. |
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X *always* runs as root on Linux so whether you nice it to 19 or -19 is |
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not relevant. It was only very very recently that someone got X to run |
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as a user. Do you disagree or should I elaborate? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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