Hello Helge, On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 21:10, Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Michael, > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 10:47:38PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > > can read proc as regular user (etch) > > > > > > "This file is protected so that it can be read and written only by the user " > > > "I<root>, or members of the group I<root>." > > > > I need more context here to find which part of the > > page this note refers to. > > This is the last paragraph before NOTES, i.e. the last one in > DESCRIPTION. Ooops _ I must have been looking at the wrong file. > Having a brief look this FIXME probably is (no) longer correct, but > the translator who noticed this 2011 is no longer active, so please > close if it is (no longer) applicable. Close it, I think. Certainly on my system /dev/cpu/N/msr is readable only by root. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
