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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:49:38 +0100
From: Alex Riesen <Alexander.Riesen@synopsys.com>
To: mingo@redhat.com
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Subject: world read permissions on /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask and ...smp_affinity
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Hello!

Is there any reason to set the permissions to 0600?
It makes the admin to login as root just to look on the
current system state.
Is there something against 0644?

-alex
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