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[Xense-devel] [PATCH] dom0_ops -EPERM not -EACCES?

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Subject: [Xense-devel] [PATCH] dom0_ops -EPERM not -EACCES?
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:35:42 +1100
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Hi all,

        dom0_ops return -EACCES when the interface version in wrong.  I think
that an acm failure is closer to being non-priv'ed, which returns
-EPERM.  Wouldn't want dom0 tools to report they were the wrong version
just because ACM limited some operation, surely?

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (authored)

diff -r e2d1c88d50f7 xen/common/dom0_ops.c
--- a/xen/common/dom0_ops.c     Thu Nov 24 00:55:37 2005
+++ b/xen/common/dom0_ops.c     Thu Nov 24 12:31:37 2005
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
         return -EACCES;
 
     if ( acm_pre_dom0_op(op, &ssid) )
-        return -EACCES;
+        return -EPERM;
 
     spin_lock(&dom0_lock);
 

-- 
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