On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 02:12 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> This change is likely to be included in 2.6.32.y and, by default, in our
> next stable point release.  As Linus says, this means that unprivileged
> accounts won't be able to run iotop, but this is probably correct
> behaviour.

Thanks for the heads up.

> It appears that older versions of iotop do not report this error in a
> helpful way (#644616).  So I think that if we apply this change to the
> kernel then iotop should also be updated in stable.

It appears the iotop patch applies to the stable version with no
changes. Should I prepare an update and propose it to the release team?

-- 
bye,
pabs

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