From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/745 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nix Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.misc.pape.general,gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:30:22 +0000 Message-ID: <8765004a1t.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> References: <20050303214023.GD1251@ixeon.local> <6.2.1.2.0.20050303165334.038f32a0@192.168.50.2> <20050303224616.GA1428@ixeon.local> <871xaqb6o0.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20050308165814.GA1936@ixeon.local> <871xap9dfg.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20050309152958.GB4042@ixeon.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110415554 27330 80.91.229.2 (10 Mar 2005 00:45:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: misc@list.smarden.org, supervision@list.skarnet.org, mkettler@evi-inc.com Original-X-From: linux-kernel-owner+glk-linux-kernel=40m.gmane.org-S262557AbVCJAkF@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 10 01:45:53 2005 Original-Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9Bnp-0003m0-Cy for glk-linux-kernel@gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:45:25 +0100 Original-Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262557AbVCJAkF (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:40:05 -0500 Original-Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262401AbVCJAiA (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:38:00 -0500 Original-Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:40715 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262572AbVCJAac (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:30:32 -0500 Original-Received: from esperi.org.uk (nix@amaterasu.srvr.nix [192.168.14.14]) by mail.esperi.org.uk (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2A0UNBK013837; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:30:23 GMT Original-Received: (from nix@localhost) by esperi.org.uk (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j2A0UMfM014365; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:30:22 GMT Original-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Emacs: don't cry -- it won't help. In-Reply-To: (Paul Jarc's message of "Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:28:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, linux) Original-Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-MailScanner-To: glk-linux-kernel@gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.kernel:285825 gmane.comp.misc.pape.general:953 gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:745 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:745 On Wed, 09 Mar 2005, Paul Jarc uttered the following: > "George Georgalis" wrote: >> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs >> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and >> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too. > > The /proc/kmsg problem happens because the kernel now checks for > permission at read() instead of open(). Am I the only person who thinks `eee-ick, how utterly non-POSIX' at that? -- > ...Hires Root Beer... What we need these days is a stable, fast, anti-aliased root beer with dynamic shading. Not that you can let just anybody have root. --- John M. Ford