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Do I need root privileges to start a realtime application?

April 26, 2017application privileges realtime

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Do I need root privileges to start a realtime application?

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No, you can configure your system so that also a non-root user can run a realtime application. A typical realtime application uses realtime priorities and it might want to lock its address space (mlockall). For security reasons, a normal user is usually not allowed to do such things.