Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:59:25 -0600 | From | Anthony Liguori <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:53 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > >>We wish to make management hypercalls as the root user in userspace >>which means we have to go through the kernel. Currently, we do this >>by >>having /proc/xen/privcmd accept an ioctl() that takes a structure >>that >>describe the register arguments. The kernel interface allows us to >>control who in userspace can execute hypercalls. >> >> > >ioctls on proc is evil though (so is ioctl-on-sysfs). It's a device not >a proc file! > > I full heartedly agree with you :-)
Regards,
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