Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] /sys/hypervisor/uuid

[Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Keir Fraser (Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Christian has a fair point that, if you're just reading it out of 
> xenstore, you could do that directly from user space. I suppose there 
> is an argument of necessary privileges to do so however, since you need 
> to be root to open the xenstore device file.

Privileges part is a bit annoying.  But if the envisioned user
is unprivilged, some init script could always stash uuid in a
world readable file.

thanks,
-chris

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