On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:53 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > We wish to make management hypercalls as the root user in userspace > which means we have to go through the kernel. Currently, we do this > by > having /proc/xen/privcmd accept an ioctl() that takes a structure > that > describe the register arguments. The kernel interface allows us to > control who in userspace can execute hypercalls. ioctls on proc is evil though (so is ioctl-on-sysfs). It's a device not a proc file! - 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/
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