tools / cpupower: Correctly detect if running as root
authorMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:36:52 +0000 (13:36 +0100)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Fri, 19 Dec 2014 22:01:03 +0000 (23:01 +0100)
commitad1d8313cdeec8bc10cecb2143d047eb565b9f65
tree456df70b2c1e6d0df4c94c2e199575b6d687bff5
parent2a813f1aaaf00a7eb65bef8da2fe9fcec0aabaaa
tools / cpupower: Correctly detect if running as root

Some operations, like frequency-set, need root privileges. However,
the way that this is detected is not correct. The getuid() is called,
while in fact geteuid() should be. This way we can allow
distributions or users to set SETUID flags on the cpupower binary if
they want to and let regular users change the cpu frequency governor.

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
tools/power/cpupower/utils/cpupower.c