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 ...

Stanislav Sedov stas at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 8 22:05:02 UTC 2008


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.

-- 
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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