Alexandru Juncu alex.juncu at rosedu.org
Fri Dec 30 13:20:55 EST 2011


On Dec 30, 2011 8:05 PM, "Philip Anil-QBW348" <
anil.philip at motorolasolutions.com> wrote:
>
> Audio /video codecs are just system libraries not kernel drivers... You
could modify the codec library code to start a new process, but it's
hackish...
>
> --
>
> Suppose the codecs are owned by a special user, Foo. Then is it possible
for Foo to automatically run the program Bar after the codecs finish?
>
> Anil

Again, libraries are not owned by an user... They're just files, that any
user can read. And the code in those files are used by processes that are
owned by an user.
A new process will be run by the same user as the one that forked that
process (usually).
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