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SubjectRe: [PATCH] clocksource: Fix permissions for available_clocksource
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:36:37PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2008, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> >
> > File permissions for
> > /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/available_clocksource
> > are 600 which allows write access. But this is in fact a read only
> > file. So change permissions to 400.
>
> Indeed. The question is whether we should make this 444. There is no
> harm, when users can read the info. Same applies for the
> current_clocksource entry, making it 644 should be fine.

Sure, I can send an on-top patch for this.

Btw. did you recently try writing "jiffies" to current_clocksource?
That seems to be a trick to stop the clock...


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