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    SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes
    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,

    Anthony Liguori
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