Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:37:54 -0700 From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> To: "Stanislav Sedov" <stas@freebsd.org> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile cpuctl.4 src/sys/amd64/amd64 support.S src/sys/amd64/conf NOTES src/sys/amd64/include cpufunc.h specialreg.h src/sys/conf files.amd64 files.i386 src/sys/dev/cpuctl cpuctl.c ... Message-ID: <e7db6d980808081537kda402b0lc71c8a8741bc5d1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080809020838.d63be5da.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <200808081631.m78GVG9i088754@repoman.freebsd.org> <200808081427.42536.jhb@freebsd.org> <20080808185133.GG97161@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <200808081459.54735.jhb@freebsd.org> <e7db6d980808081402w676f91n8570df2e83b1c65d@mail.gmail.com> <20080809020838.d63be5da.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:02:19 -0700 > "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> mentioned: > >> >> I just don't think it is particularly useful to add a restriction / >> priv check for information that is available in an unprivileged >> fashion by other means. I think the priv check should go away since >> it doesn't achieve anything. >> > > Yeah, that's why cpuctl(4) has priv checks only for wrmsr and update > features. Using this checks one can control how much to grant to the > root user. Serves me right for responding to what I thought I read vs actually reading the code then.. :) -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell
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