On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 23:48 -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> You need to be root to insert the module. But I believe that for many user
> environments, this is more practical than having to recompile a custom kernel.
Clearly.
> You can imagine the format being shipped with the tool, when the sysadmin
> installs the tool it also installs the module.
In that case, you need some kind of per-distro cruft to make sure the
module gets loaded at every boot, or a setuid program that can install
the module, right?. Neither of these approaches works well in a cluster
environment where you're running your tools from a shared directory.
I'd really like the default mode of operation for users to not require
root privileges to get at normal functionality. This is something
perfctr makes possible, for example.
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