Re: world read permissions on /proc/irq/prof_cpu_mask and ...smp_affinity

Ingo Molnar (mingo@redhat.com)
Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:37:01 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Alex Riesen wrote:

> 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?

i've got nothing against 0644, 0600 was just the default paranoid value.
(reading it could in theory mean an IO-APIC read.)

Ingo

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