Re: Again... DMA speed too slow

[Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)]

"Alan" <alan@clueserver.org> wrote:

>
> >> I am not sure why you mention the term "brave", is it because all known
> >> Linux
> >> distributions still require suid root? In this case, I encourage you to
> >> inform
> >
> > Last time I checked almost all cd burning was being done non root.
>
> Nero for Linux seems to be an exception.  It wants to write to raw devices
> that non-root users do not have permissions for.

Not correct: Nero is not the exception.

All software that implements more than rudimentary functions needs root 
privileges on Linux (*). Some software may not check this in advance and may
later fail with obscure error messages.

*) with future Linux distributions this may change but there is currently no 
known Linux distribution that supports the needed feature.





Jörg

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