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Message-ID: <49FEC52E.6070501@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 14:36:30 +0400
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: tun: add tun_flags, owner, group attributes in sysfs
David Woodhouse wrote:
> This patch adds three attribute files in /sys/class/net/$dev/ for tun
> devices; allowing userspace to obtain the information which TUNGETIFF
> offers, and more, but without having to attach to the device in question
> (which may not be possible if it's in use).
>
[]
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(tun_flags, 0444, tun_show_flags, NULL);
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(owner, 0444, tun_show_owner, NULL);
> +static DEVICE_ATTR(group, 0444, tun_show_group, NULL);
Is there any reason why those files are not writable?
I understand flags one, sorta (but it is still useful to
be able to change some flags, like persistent, while it's
running), but for owner/group - it's just an integer that's
used to check permissions for ioctl, and can be set in sysfs
just fine. I think anyway.
/mjt
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