From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264704AbUEXWU7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 18:20:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264723AbUEXWU7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 18:20:59 -0400 Received: from blv-smtpout-01.boeing.com ([130.76.32.69]:8326 "EHLO blv-smtpout-01.boeing.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264704AbUEXWU5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 18:20:57 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6556.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:20:33 -0700 Message-ID: <67B3A7DA6591BE439001F2736233351202B47E6E@xch-nw-28.nw.nos.boeing.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Index: AcRB3VQgxH6dWpbwSEWi7nAbAR3R5g== From: "Laughlin, Joseph V" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 May 2004 22:20:33.0854 (UTC) FILETIME=[54BE1DE0:01C441DD] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've been tasked with modifying a 2.4 kernel so that a non-root user can do the following: Dynamically change the priorities of processes (up and down) Lock processes in memory Can change process cpu affinity Anyone got any ideas about how I could start doing this? (I'm new to kernel development, btw.) Thanks, Joe Laughlin Phantom Works - Integrated Technology Development Labs The Boeing Company