On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:08:01PM -0500, Israel Fernandez wrote:
> Hi, I'm registering a /proc file like this:
>
> create_proc_entry(PROC_FILE_NAME, S_IRUGO | S_IWUGO)
>
> I expect I could write this file, I also register the file
> inode_operations with a permission pointer containing this:
>
> my_proc_permission (struct inode * inodep, int op){
> if (op == 4 || (op == 2 && current->euid == 00))
> return 0;
> return -EACCES;
> }
Ehm *why*? This is not needed for procfs, the generic procfs code will
handle this for you. See my procfs HOWTO in Documentation/DocBook/ and
www.kernelnewbies.org.
Erik
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