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[Peter Wemm]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Stanislav Sedov <stas at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:02:19 -0700
> "Peter Wemm" <peter at 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.. :)

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