From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263663AbUEXXPp (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 19:15:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263875AbUEXXPp (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 19:15:45 -0400 Received: from stl-smtpout-01.boeing.com ([130.76.96.56]:55724 "EHLO stl-smtpout-01.boeing.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263663AbUEXXPn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 May 2004 19:15:43 -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: RE: your mail Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 16:15:26 -0700 Message-ID: <67B3A7DA6591BE439001F2736233351202B47E7E@xch-nw-28.nw.nos.boeing.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: your mail Thread-Index: AcRB5LXaMmfCvJn3TiiL2CJ5/dNPnwAADGhg From: "Laughlin, Joseph V" To: "Bernd Petrovitsch" , X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 May 2004 23:15:26.0318 (UTC) FILETIME=[FF3440E0:01C441E4] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernd Petrovitsch [mailto:bernd@firmix.at] > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 4:13 PM > To: Laughlin, Joseph V; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: your mail > > > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 01:04, Laughlin, Joseph V wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > [...] > > > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:20:33PM -0700, Laughlin, > Joseph V wrote: > > > > 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 > [...] > > Currently, we're using sched_setaffinity() to control it, which > > existed in our 2.4.19 kernel. (but, you have to be root to use it, > > and we'd like non-root users to be able to change the affinity.) > > And using sudo or setuid Binaries? > > Bernd > -- Not an option, unfortunately.