* Taeung Song <treeze.tae...@gmail.com> wrote: > If perf.data file is owned by some user, > it can't be read even if current user is root.
That's intentional: to keep a malicious local user from passing a perf.data to root who does 'perf report' accidentally or in the wrong directory. root can copy or chown it to himself - or we could add some --really-force flag for that. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/