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  1. Bug #71575
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 71575

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 71575] Re: /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches should be able to be configured to allow regular user writes

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 01:00 +0000, Ben Collins wrote:
> You need root, or CAP_ADMIN. Not really going to make it so you can
> write to it as normal user, since either of the other options is just as
> simple.

Sorry, I dont quite get that.

My use case is not that a normal user can do it adhoc, but that it can
be configured to be done via a normal user.

I presume that by 'other options' you mean CAP_ADMIN/root - neither of
which are appropriate for running performance test suites, which is why
I am asking for this.

I can completely understand that this isn't something you're interested
in fixing yourself, but if you throw me a vague pointer at the relevant
code I can look into it, or can we mark it upstream [I'm disagreeing
that this is an invalid request] ?

Rob
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