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From: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: iotop needs to run as root after kernel change
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:57:34
Message-Id: 20120404125621.GA7487@kroah.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: iotop needs to run as root after kernel change by justin
1 On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 08:32:41AM +0200, justin wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > after this change
5 >
6 > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
7 >
8 > iotop cannot be used as user anymore.
9 > Any suggestions how to proceed?
10 >
11 > The solution I see are
12 >
13 > 1.
14 > Leave it to root (Fedora and Suses way)
15
16 Please leave it this way, the information leakage otherwise is too big
17 of a risk to do anything else.
18
19 greg k-h

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