taskstats capability check in stable

2011-12-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
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. It appears that older versions of iotop do not report this error in a

Re: taskstats capability check in stable

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 02:12 +, 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

Re: taskstats capability check in stable

2011-12-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 11:11 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 02:12 +, 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,

Re: taskstats capability check in stable

2011-12-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 04:32 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Please do. Proposed in #652015 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part