[PD] os x realtime not under root.

PAGANO,PATRICK RALPH bigswift at ufl.edu
Mon Sep 15 16:35:01 CEST 2003


So
me as user is slower i presume? How much slower? Can anyone 
comment please

On Mon Sep 15 09:54:09 EDT 2003, Hans-Christoph Steiner 
<hans at eds.org> wrote:

> 
> Not if you make the pd executable setuid root.  To do so, run 
> this (assuming your pd is installed in /usr/local/bin/pd):
> 
> sudo chown root /usr/local/bin/pd
> sudo chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/pd
> 
> Then pd will always run as root regardless of who started it.  
> This is a modest security risk though, setting any app setuid 
> root is.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 07:25 America/New_York, Amos Elmaliah 
> wrote:
> 
>> hi i just starting to use pd, on a osx machine.
>> - i compiled it myself. my question: is it necessary to sudo pd 
>> to get real time in osx?
>> 
>> amos.
>> 
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