<div>I understand that it's not safe, but does commenting it out break anything inside PA that I'm not aware of?<br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block protonmail_signature_block-empty"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:56 PM, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) <rudd-o@rudd-o.com> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/07/2020 18.32, jtharkey wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>In the source I found this in daemon/main.c:<br></div><div><br></div><div>if (conf->system_instance &&
!conf->disable_shm) {<br></div><div> pa_log_notice(_("Running in system mode, forcibly
disabling SHM mode."));<br></div><div> conf->disable_shm = true;<br></div><div> }<br></div><div><br></div><div>I commented that out and built it, things seemed to work and
work faster. Will commenting that out have some side effect I'm
not aware of?<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Yes, SHM mode is not safe when multiple users are using it. SHM
will give you more performance but hostile users may compromise
your PulseAudio daemon.<br></p><div><br></div><pre cols="72">--
Rudd-O
<a href="http://rudd-o.com/">http://rudd-o.com/</a><br></pre></blockquote><div><br></div>