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From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
To: Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es>
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Subject: Re: Sysctl and root privileges, how could I avoid them ?
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>>>>> On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 10:14:54 +0100, 
>>>>> Juan Francisco Rodriguez Hervella <jrh@it.uc3m.es> said:

> Are you talking about the flag CTLFLAG_RW ? I'm using req->oldptr ==
> NULL and
req-> newptr != NULL to add a new element into a kernel table.... and I
> plan
> to use req->oldptr & req->newptr != NULL to show the elements of the
> table...

If you just want to show (get) the elements, you don't have to have a
non NULL newptr.  Then the root privilege won't be required.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp

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