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Subject: Re: [PLPA users] Use of /sys/.../cpuX/online files
From: Bert Wesarg (bert.wesarg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-13 07:34:42


On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 13:18, Jeff Squyres <jsquyres_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:40 AM, Bert Wesarg wrote:
>
>>> 2. The perms on these files are 600, which seems pretty useless -- only
>>> root
>>> can read them.
>>
>> In mainline its 644, see here [1] if you want. And it was changed a
>> year ago from 600 to 644, see here [2].
>>
>> [1]
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/base/cpu.c;h=64f5d54f7edcee095ae8ead0a2f29d032ce546cd;hb=HEAD#l57
>> [2]
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9eb3ff40376e505eafb927b4a4cbccc928df68ec
>
>
> Good! Do you happen to know what kernel that got added to? It's not part
> of RHEL5.1; that's all I checked (based on 2.6.18).
Looks like 2.6.23. At least this is the first release after this July 29 2007.

Bert
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> Jeff Squyres
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