Re: [Xen-devel] xm dmesg output

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Heath wrote:

> Speaking of "xm dmesg", because xm is in /usr/sbin, it implies that a normal
> user wouldn't normally need to run it.
>  
xm dmesg requires root privileges (in order to make the readconsolering 
hypercall) which means that it can only be run by root.  There's no 
point in cluttering a user's path with things that he cannot run :-)  
The only exception would be users with sudo privileges.  I think it's 
common enough to put /usr/sbin and /sbin in sudo users PATHs though so 
they don't need it in /usr/bin.
Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> However, xm provides several informational commands, dmesg being just one of
> them.  And, since the normal dmesg is in /bin, it might make sense to have
> them available in /usr/bin as well.
>
> However, this could just be done with a shell script wrapper.  Would such a
> patch be accepted?
>
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