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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:26:36 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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On 11/23, Tejun Heo wrote:
>
> I see.  So, let's do it for root for now and later add finer grained
> CAP as necessary/viable.

Agreed.

Stupid off-topic question, I am just curious... Why /proc/sys
dislikes chmod ? I do not understand this code, but it seems
that it would be simple to change proc_sys_setattr() to respect
ATTR_MODE and update PROC_I(inode)->sysctl_entry->mode, no?

> Pavel, what do you think?

Yes...

Oleg.