Commit a38339ac authored by Sam Lantinga's avatar Sam Lantinga

Warn people not to run their applications as root!

parent f0b1c9b8
...@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ SDL_SYS_SetThreadPriority(SDL_ThreadPriority priority) ...@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ SDL_SYS_SetThreadPriority(SDL_ThreadPriority priority)
value = 0; value = 0;
} }
if (setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, syscall(SYS_gettid), value) < 0) { if (setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, syscall(SYS_gettid), value) < 0) {
/* Note that this fails if you're trying to set high priority
and you don't have root permission. BUT DON'T RUN AS ROOT!
*/
SDL_SetError("setpriority() failed"); SDL_SetError("setpriority() failed");
return -1; return -1;
} }
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