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| author | dec05eba <dec05eba@protonmail.com> | 2024-08-18 18:36:25 +0200 |
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| committer | dec05eba <dec05eba@protonmail.com> | 2024-08-18 18:36:25 +0200 |
| commit | 677526e2e2830b9fb31b7c21d949d9d2c169d738 (patch) | |
| tree | 911c788a97396a9c4b9497c42c448ebc49c8b4d1 | |
| parent | a6422818b8498021f00629d9b3ddb549c39ed27c (diff) | |
Explain why portal needs access to process root file
| -rwxr-xr-x | extra/meson_post_install.sh | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/extra/meson_post_install.sh b/extra/meson_post_install.sh index 2dc28f6..bef7a4a 100755 --- a/extra/meson_post_install.sh +++ b/extra/meson_post_install.sh @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ # Cant do this because it breaks desktop portal (create session)!!!. # For some reason the desktop portal tries to access /proc/gpu-screen-recorder-pid/root from the portal process # which doesn't work because for some reason CAP_SYS_NICE on a program makes /proc/self/root not readable by other processes. +# The reason portal reads that file might be because portal seems to have a security feature where its able to identify the +# process and if the session token is stolen by another application then it will ignore the session token as it wasn't that +# application that created the session token. +# --- # This is needed to allow gpu screen recorder to run faster than a heavy games fps, for example when trying to record at 60 fps # but the game drops to 45 fps in some place. That would also make gpu screen recorder drop to 45 fps unless this setcap is used. #/usr/sbin/setcap cap_sys_nice+ep ${MESON_INSTALL_DESTDIR_PREFIX}/bin/gpu-screen-recorder |