[ck] Re: Threading issues? [[email protected]: ck Digest,
Vol 3, Issue 16]
Robert Shearman
rob at codeweavers.com
Thu Sep 2 09:40:18 CDT 2004
Mike Hearn wrote:
>> I wouldn't trust it. An app just misbehaving can trash important
>> parts of your filesystem. Suid root is just a bad idea, windows being
>> linux aware or not. Just for mild amusement I think someone being
>> funky got a windows virus to work under wine if I recall correctly.
>
> Anyway, interesting as this is, if we can't or shouldn't renice apps
> to a higher priority then we're back at square one. Are there any
> recommended ways of debugging scheduling problems Con, any tools we
> can use, or is it all down to guesswork and printf() timings?
We could always ship a custom version of renice that could be installed
suid root, which would only allow changing the priorities of wine
processes and/or up to a certain priority limit (preferably equivalent
to Windows).
Rob
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