Em Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 09:26:26PM +0900, Taeung Song escreveu: > > On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:10 PM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: > > * 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. > I got it. > I didn’t know its intention. Feel free to transform Ingo's comment in a C source code comment right besides the code doing that check, this way when someone else thinks this is wrong, like you did, the comment will clarify things. - Arnaldo -- 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/
