Am Freitag, 31. März 2006 23:38 schrieb Mike Hearn: > > Until it crashes your box of course... > > If a Windows program has a habit of hard freezing the system then the > user will learn not to run that program. > > As it is, right now _many_ games suffer this problem with corrupted > audio and it's very unpleasant (loud bursts of white noise). Makes the > games unplayable, in fact. > > I'd rather make the games playable and give developers an incentive to > find a better privilege model than leave this to coast along for another > few years with only a bunch of talk, ideas and non-mainline patches. > > Right now there are no good solutions for this we can implement in Wine > itself (except maybe making wineserver suid root and drop privs), and > SCHED_ISO isn't merged into the mainline kernel, so telling users to > upgrade won't solve much. > I'm probably wrong, but in theory, if Wine used the Jack audio driver, and jackd is suid root, the sound shouldn't stutter but Wine/ a Windows app still couldn't hard-lock the system, as Wine would run with standard user privileges? If that's the case, wouldn't fixing the Jack driver and making it the preferred output plugin solve the issue? I mean, it's at least as conveniant as suggesting to run Wine as root... ;-)
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