Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/5] tools: add xenfs tool

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 11.09.2019 08:20, Juergen Gross wrote:
> --- a/tools/misc/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/misc/Makefile
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ INSTALL_SBIN-$(CONFIG_X86)     += xen-lowmemd
>  INSTALL_SBIN-$(CONFIG_X86)     += xen-mfndump
>  INSTALL_SBIN-$(CONFIG_X86)     += xen-ucode
>  INSTALL_SBIN                   += xencov
> +INSTALL_SBIN                   += xenfs

Why SBIN? Is there anything wrong with allowing unprivileged
users r/o access? Or is this because in order to access the
hypercall interface one needs to be root? If so, we may want
to consider relaxing/avoiding/bypassing this in some sensible
way.

Jan

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