[sugar] [RFC] teach sugar to update oom_adj

Joshua N Pritikin jpritikin
Tue Feb 20 10:58:26 EST 2007


On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:51:07PM +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Is /proc/pid/oom_adj supposed to be user writable?

It needs capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE). Is OLPC going to employ SELinux or 
somesuch for Bitfrost? If not then some kind of mini-server running as 
root will be needed to traverse the security barrier.

> I'd like to make this actually work before getting the patch in. If
> there are issues we should open tickets about them.


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