Maybe that's something cool for PD, as well?
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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:53:43 +0300 (EET DST) From: Tommi Ilmonen tilmonen@cc.hut.fi To: lad2 linux-audio-dev@music.columbia.edu Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Announce: GIVERTCAP - capability handler (fwd)
[This is a resend, it seems my first attemp did not get there]
Hello.
GIVERTCAP is a small Linux application that is used to give other application real-time capabilities. With the aid of givertcap you can run real-time applications (audio and video -processing apps for example) with high priority without running the application as root. Your application does get a collection capabilities that allow it to run at very high priority.
Givertcap was created to overcome the lack of capability support in Linux file systems. Once the Linux file systems start to have the necessary functions themselves, this apps becomes unnecessary.
To use this app you need to compile it and make it setuid-root. After this other applications can use this mini-app to gain capabilities that are necessary for real-time operation.
The home page: http://www.tml.hut.fi/~tilmonen/givertcap/
Please comment (!)
Tommi Ilmonen
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