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Summary: RTT doesn't know about pam_limits and rtprio for non-
root users
Product: RTT
Version: rtt-trunk
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: Real-Time Toolkit (RTT)
AssignedTo: orocos-dev [..] ...
ReportedBy: kiwi [dot] net [..] ...
CC: orocos-dev [..] ...
Estimated Hours: 0.0

On Linux systems with PAM and pam_limits installed you can set per-user limits
on realtime priorities, allowing non-root users to run real-time tasks. RTT
only checks for the root user and if the user isn't root, drops the task to
non-realtime. It probably should check for the alternate case of a non-root
user that does have realtime privileges.

At first look I can't find any header/development files that allow programmatic
access to the pam_limits (set in `/etc/security/limits.conf`), so I don't
currently have a solution to this one. If/when we do find this, I also don't
know how you want to structure the changes to the RTT source to deal with the
inevitable case of a user not having pam_limits installed?