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Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

From Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?
Date 2024-01-16 14:10 +0100
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:43:23PM +0100, hw wrote:
> There's only a bunch of links in that directory, apparently all
> pointing to files that don't exist.  Don't you have that?

unicorn:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/systemd/units
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan  4 10:33 invocation:at-spi-dbus-bus.service -> bfec6466520a4586b8c9205c235ccc92
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan  4 10:32 invocation:dbus.service -> 2b212423fe7f48df993bf1a7159a917f
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan  4 10:32 invocation:dbus.socket -> febb123312794a6b90cf4c833af5b2e3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan 10 15:19 invocation:dconf.service -> 32ff4a266ef64caca6ceb62cebe5baa5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan  4 10:32 invocation:pipewire.service -> 8a54321c93d04ef9860e128c27399c18
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan  4 10:32 invocation:pulseaudio.service -> b8e04b1f22ac4f01b9e262a7f5fab40c
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan  4 10:33 invocation:xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service -> d7768c07f7d04410857a3feb8000dc3b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan  4 10:33 invocation:xdg-desktop-portal.service -> ac5527db968648b99b4361e517616318
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan  4 10:33 invocation:xdg-document-portal.service -> 1422bb0407ed475eb3f1e312bf97e4b8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan  4 10:33 invocation:xdg-permission-store.service -> 7ff0ce2fc8ef4ca498e4f63be7e49429

I guess that's normal, then.  It seems they're using the symlink target
as the actual *data*, not a link to another file that contains the data.
Why?  I have no idea.  I seem to recall one of the BSDs doing something
like this, but I never fully understood the rationale.  Something about
atomic operations, maybe?

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How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-15 19:50 +0100
  Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-15 20:30 +0100
    Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-15 21:40 +0100
      Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2024-01-15 22:10 +0100
        Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-01-16 11:30 +0100
        Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2024-01-16 13:10 +0100
      Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-16 07:00 +0100
        Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 11:30 +0100
          Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-16 13:10 +0100
            Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 13:50 +0100
              Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-16 14:10 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 14:20 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 14:40 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-16 14:50 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-17 11:30 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2024-01-17 13:30 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-17 14:50 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-17 15:20 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-17 13:30 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-17 15:10 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2024-01-17 15:20 +0100
                Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-18 06:10 +0100
  Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-15 21:00 +0100
    Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-15 21:10 +0100
      Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 10:50 +0100
        Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-01-16 11:30 +0100
          Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 12:00 +0100
            Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2024-01-16 12:50 +0100
            Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2024-01-16 13:20 +0100
              Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 14:00 +0100
    Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-01-15 22:30 +0100
      Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-16 10:50 +0100
        Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2024-01-16 17:20 +0100
          Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority? hw <hw@adminart.net> - 2024-01-17 14:20 +0100

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