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

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On Wed, 2024-01-17 at 12:25 +0000, Tixy wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-01-17 at 11:19 +0100, hw wrote:
> > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:41 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 02:17:05PM +0100, hw wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > > > 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
> > > > > [...]
> > > > > 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?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I consider it as alarming rather than normal when I can't access data
> > > > on my own computer.
> > > 
> > > You can access it just fine.  You just don't *understand* it.  (Neither
> > > do I.)
> > 
> > If I could access it, I could display the file.  If there is no file,
> > then these directory entries shouldn't exist.
> 
> Filesystem directories entries hold more than file and directory
> objects. As well as symbolic links, there's named FIFOs, named sockets,
> and devices.
> 
> E.g.
> 
> $ mkfifo a-fifo
> $ nc -lkU a-socket&
> $ ln -T target -s a-link
> 
> $ ls -l a-*
> prw-r--r-- 1 tixy tixy 0 Jan 17 12:07 a-fifo
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tixy tixy 6 Jan 17 12:08 a-link -> target
> srwxr-xr-x 1 tixy tixy 0 Jan 17 12:07 a-socket
> 

Ok but all the files in /run/user/1000/systemd/units/ are
lrwxrwxrwx. (except . and ..).

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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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