Is there a reason why the "online" file in the subdirectories for the CPUs in /sys/devices/system isn't world-readable? I cannot imagine it to be security relevant especially now that a getcpu() syscall can be used to determine what CPUa thread runs on.
The file is useful to correctly implement the sysconf() function to return the number of online CPUs. In the presence of hotplug we currently cannot provide this information. The patch below should to it. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/base/cpu.c 2007-02-20 12:01:31.000000000 -0800 +++ drivers/base/cpu.c-new 2007-07-29 17:52:58.000000000 -0700 @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ ret = count; return ret; } -static SYSDEV_ATTR(online, 0600, show_online, store_online); +static SYSDEV_ATTR(online, 0644, show_online, store_online); static void __devinit register_cpu_control(struct cpu *cpu) { - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/