On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:10:04PM +0000, Juan RP wrote:
>  > >Fix:
>  > 	- make sysmonioctl_envsys check FWRITE for ENVSYS_SETDICTIONARY.
>  > 	- make envstat(8) use O_WDWR when appropriate.
>  
>  I asked that two months ago when I started it. Nobody answered me if
>  envstat -m should be used only by root or something like this.

I'm sorry no one answered.  I don't know about root-only, but it
makes sense for the "set" operations to be governed by write access
to the device.  That is consistent with the BSD/*nix model.

Reading should be governed by read (FREAD) access to the device,
modifying/setting/writing should be governed by write (FWRITE)
access.

-allen

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