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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:28:37 +1100
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] DevFS support for /dev/cpu/X/(cpuid|msr)
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On 8 Jan 2002 19:16:30 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> So you chown an entry, then a module is unloaded and reloaded, now
> what happens?

Sorry, was responding to the second sentence, not the first:

> However, procfs has no permission control
> system set up, unlike /dev.  This is inherent; adjusting sysctls is a
> root-only function and cannot be made otherwise.

In practice, my /proc/sys perms are four bits: ALL READ, ALL WRITE, ROOT READ, ROOT WRITE.

Hope that helps,
Rusty.
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