Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262557AbVCJAkF (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:40:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262401AbVCJAiA (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:38:00 -0500 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:40715 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262572AbVCJAac (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:30:32 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: misc@list.smarden.org, supervision@list.skarnet.org, mkettler@evi-inc.com Subject: Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa References: <20050303214023.GD1251@ixeon.local> <6.2.1.2.0.20050303165334.038f32a0@192.168.50.2> <20050303224616.GA1428@ixeon.local> <871xaqb6o0.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20050308165814.GA1936@ixeon.local> <871xap9dfg.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20050309152958.GB4042@ixeon.local> From: Nix X-Emacs: don't cry -- it won't help. Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:30:22 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Paul Jarc's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:28:35 -0500") Message-ID: <8765004a1t.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 888 Lines: 22 On Wed, 09 Mar 2005, Paul Jarc uttered the following: > "George Georgalis" wrote: >> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs >> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and >> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too. > > The /proc/kmsg problem happens because the kernel now checks for > permission at read() instead of open(). Am I the only person who thinks `eee-ick, how utterly non-POSIX' at that? -- > ...Hires Root Beer... What we need these days is a stable, fast, anti-aliased root beer with dynamic shading. Not that you can let just anybody have root. --- John M. Ford - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/