Hello,
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Debabrata Banerjee wrote:
> commit d23ff701643a4a725e2c7a8ba2d567d39daa29ea introduced netlink support for
> the new tcp_metrics, however it restricted getting of tcp_metrics to root user
> only. This is a change from how these values could have been fetched when in
> the old route cache. Unless there's a legitimate reason to restrict the
> reading
> of these values it would be better if normal users could fetch them.
Not sure how fatal is to show TCP fastopen cookies to
any user. Otherwise, I don't remember for other restrictions.
Regards
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Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>
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