[Trac #1006] TamTam : Priority problems

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#1006: TamTam : Priority problems
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 Reporter:  Nat     |        Owner:  cjb    
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  high    |    Milestone:  BTest-3
Component:  tamtam  |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment (by jg):

 Albert: TamTam working as root was merely a symptom, for which we probably
 have found the cause and a much less dangerous solution, noted in my most
 recent reply, that should potentially help *all* audio applications on
 OLPC.  It was clear from the beginning we had priority problems; running
 as root was just implying something was happening some place to affect the
 processes priority, since root has privileges regular users don't.

 On a properly engineered system, root becomes pretty meaningless: e.g. at
 MIT on project Athena, the root password has been public since the 1980's.
 It literally gets you nothing that makes it dangerous.

 <b>Keep to the original topic in a trac entry</b>, rather than wandering
 off into things that have little to do with the problem we're working on.
 If you want a trac discussion about using SE linux, or the merits of it
 versus bitfrost, that should be a separate trac entry.  You are showing
 this same problem in many other trac postings you are making.

 In this case, the topic is finding a solution for TamTam so it works
 properly, where the topic at the very beginning was about "Priority
 problems", rather than anything about root or security.

 Otherwise, the signal to noise obscures the information required to get
 problems solved.

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