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diff --git a/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README b/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README index d05ea7c72a..7d1667887d 100644 --- a/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README +++ b/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README @@ -4,16 +4,10 @@ allow them to share audio among themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as a normal application) or they can run within a JACK server instance (i.e. as a "plugin"). -jackd has to run with realtime privileges. One way to do this on Slackware -would be to use set_rlimits. Since 12.2 there's another way - if you have -a filesystem that supports posix capabilities (reiserfs does not), you can -grant jackd the rights to run in realtime mode, even when started as a -normal user, with the following command: - - setcap cap_ipc_lock,cap_sys_nice=ep /usr/bin/jackd - -If you use qjackctl to start jack, it will need the same capabilities set -to be able to start jack as non-root user. You can use the same command -with 'qjackctl' instead of 'jackd' +This package uses POSIX filesystem capabilities to execute with +elevated privileges (required for realtime audio processing). This +may be considered a security/stability risk. Please read +http://www.slackbuilds.org/caps/ for more information. To disable +capabilities, pass SETCAP=no to the script. Optional dependencies are libffado and celt. |