[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 12:53 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>  
>
> > We wish to make management hypercalls as the root user in userspace 
> > which means we have to go through the kernel.  Currently, we do this
> > by 
> > having /proc/xen/privcmd accept an ioctl() that takes a structure
> > that 
> > describe the register arguments.  The kernel interface allows us to 
> > control who in userspace can execute hypercalls.
> >    
> ioctls on proc is evil though (so is ioctl-on-sysfs). It's a device not
> a proc file!
>  
I full heartedly agree with you :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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