Re: bizarre 2.6.8.1 /sys permissions

[Dan Hollis]

>  > $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
>  > cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq: Permission denied
> Reading this file causes reads from hardware on some cpufreq drivers.
> This can be a slow operation, so a user could degrade system performance
> for everyone else by repeatedly cat'ing it.

any reason why cpuinfo_cur_freq cant read cpu_khz ?

or rather, is there any reason why cpuinfo_cur_freq and /proc/cpuinfo 
should legitimately differ?

-Dan

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