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Jo Shields wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Brian Wood wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mar 16, 2006, at 9:13 AM, Warren wrote:
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<pre wrap="">`Not necessarily. The dvb devices use up so much bandwidth that
it is logical to assume that the program accessing them will need
access to realtime scheduling as well, which is also a root-only
function. Making dvb devices owned by root to me is the natural
thing to do.
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<pre wrap="">You have a point, I guess there is no "one size fits all" answer.
I guess I just resist anybody making decisions for me, but they can
always be changed.
I'll try and write up something for the WiKi about changing device
permissions on udev systems.
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This is exactly why it should be in a user group though - you're right,
it uses a lot of bandwidth, so nto all users will neccessarily want to
use the device - but you might want to run some kind of daemon (let's
say a hypothetical "LegendTV"), so a root-only device is a silly idea.
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But if this LegendTV actually wanted to do a capture of the
high-bandwidth data coming in from the dvb card, it would need to be
root so that the real time scheduling would work and data would not be
missed. So the root-only device is the way to go. :)<br>
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