Re: root and capabilities list

2014-10-15 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 15 October 2014 02:11, ds 1000hz.radiow...@gmail.com wrote: On 15.10.2014 04:54, Colin Watson wrote: Martin's right - CAP_SYS_MODULE is functionally equivalent to root. I see. Anyway, there is another part, reading the msr and cpuid. For that, it seems to be really beneficial, to make

Re: root and capabilities list

2014-10-15 Thread ds
On 16.10.2014 00:53, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: #include cpuid.h And then use __get_cpuid() for cpuid. I believe it's possible to retrieve it without being root that way. As user-space libraries use that to check if they can/cannot execute certain optimized instructions. (e.g. checking for

Question about libgstreamer0.10-dev

2014-10-15 Thread Bolin Hsu
Hi, I found some inconsistency in the libgstreamer0.10-dev package. The package version is 0.10.36. But the header file shows 0.10.21. How would one fix such problem? By the way, I encountered the problem on 64-bit ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS. For comparison, I installed the same package