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From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
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Subject: Re: hwclock --compare segfaults when run as normal user
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:50:48 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014, at 13:12, Karel Zak wrote:
>  I have no way how to to test it, but can you try the patch below?
> [...]
>  
> +	if (ur->get_permissions())
> +		return EX_NOPERM;
> +

Yes, looks better now:

$ ./hwclock --compare
hwclock: unable to get I/O port access:  the iopl(3) call failed.: Operation not permitted
hwclock: Probably you need root privileges.

Benno

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