Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Dec 2019 10:11:55 -0800 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Introduce CAP_SYS_PERFMON capability for secure Perf users groups |
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> The question isn't whether the tool could use the capability, it's whether > the tool would also need CAP_SYS_ADMIN to be useful. Are there existing > tools that could stop using CAP_SYS_ADMIN in favor of CAP_SYS_PERFMON? > My bet is that any tool that does performance monitoring is going to need > CAP_SYS_ADMIN for other reasons.
At least perf stat won't.
-Andi
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