Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysfs: change permissions for /sys from 0755 to 0555 | Date | Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:34:24 +0400 | From | Vitaly Kuznetsov <> |
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On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:32:18 -0800, ebiederm@xmission.com wrote: > Vitaly Kuznetsov <vitty@altlinux.ru> writes: > >> There is a misleading difference between /proc and /sys permissions, >> /proc is >> 0555 and /sys is 0755. But >> as it is impossible to create or unlink something in /sys it would >> be nice to >> have same permissions. > > Where does this difference matter? This doesn't look like something > that could matter in practice. If this does matter in practice this > change deserves a comment and a fuller explanation.
This matters only for programs which 'read' permissions instead of 'testing' them, but it's a challenge to imagine such program.
> > The change itself seems reasonable and probably worth making as > general > cleanup. >
Let's consider it cleanup-only. The main idea is: /proc and /sys permissions must be the same as they are really the same.
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