Re: [tlug] CD Writers

[Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:57:56AM -0600,
Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> > > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot do
> > > mlockall(2).

This one disables paging for a block of memory.

> > > /usr/bin/cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using
> > > setpriority().

And this one lowers a process's priority.  For understandable reasons,
both of these system calls require root access.  It has nothing to do with
file permissions.  cdrecord may be using other privileged calls, too.

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Shimpei Yamashita                               http://www.shimpei.org/
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