Is there any reason that we hide the contents of 3 files in
/proc/sys/vm, when we keep the others world-readable ?
The patch below makes these readable by all users.
-- Dave.--- sysctl.c~ Wed Apr 12 23:59:55 2000 +++ sysctl.c Thu Apr 13 00:01:37 2000 @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = { {VM_FREEPG, "freepages", &freepages, sizeof(freepages_t), 0644, NULL, &proc_dointvec}, - {VM_BDFLUSH, "bdflush", &bdf_prm, 9*sizeof(int), 0600, NULL, + {VM_BDFLUSH, "bdflush", &bdf_prm, 9*sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, &proc_dointvec_minmax, &sysctl_intvec, NULL, &bdflush_min, &bdflush_max}, {VM_OVERCOMMIT_MEMORY, "overcommit_memory", &sysctl_overcommit_memory, @@ -240,9 +240,9 @@ {VM_PAGERDAEMON, "kswapd", &pager_daemon, sizeof(pager_daemon_t), 0644, NULL, &proc_dointvec}, {VM_PGT_CACHE, "pagetable_cache", - &pgt_cache_water, 2*sizeof(int), 0600, NULL, &proc_dointvec}, + &pgt_cache_water, 2*sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, &proc_dointvec}, {VM_PAGE_CLUSTER, "page-cluster", - &page_cluster, sizeof(int), 0600, NULL, &proc_dointvec}, + &page_cluster, sizeof(int), 0644, NULL, &proc_dointvec}, {0} };
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