Re: [PATCH v1] perf report: Fix owner error when reading perf.data

[Taeung Song]

> On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:10 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> * Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> If perf.data file is owned by some user,
>> it can't be read even if current user is root.
> 
> That's intentional: to keep a malicious local user from passing a perf.data to 
> root who does 'perf report' accidentally or in the wrong directory.
> 
> root can copy or chown it to himself - or we could add some --really-force flag 
> for that.

I got it.
I didnât know its intention.

Thanks,
Taeung

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo

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