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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@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 10:21:54
Message-Id: 4F7C2087.9050603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: iotop needs to run as root after kernel change by justin
1 justin schrieb:
2 > iotop cannot be used as user anymore.
3 > Any suggestions how to proceed?
4 >
5 > Leave it to root (Fedora and Suses way)
6 > suid it (bad in my view)
7
8 I suggest to have a suid USE flag (disabled by default) so the user can
9 choose between the two. Maybe advertise this change in an elog message.
10
11
12 Best regards,
13 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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