----- Original Message ----- > Thanks for the patch, I think it sounds like a good idea. For consistency, > however, we need to do the same modifications to the other platforms > (solaris, windows) and preferably add tests for this functionality as well. >
The patch makes sense to me. While a very similar patch makes sense for Solaris and *BSD (the BSD code appears to actually be mostly the same as for GNU/Linux, bar renaming), there appears to be no equivalent code in the Windows version and we don't work on that platform. > /Staffan > > On 5 jul 2013, at 18:03, Elliott Baron <eba...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On 06/05/2013 06:05 PM, Elliott Baron wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> We use Hotspot's dynamic attach mechanism in our Thermostat monitoring > >> tool [1], however we have discovered a bit of a problem with access > >> control. One of our typical use-cases is to have our agent running as > >> root, which will monitor all JVMs on the machine. We have noticed that > >> our agent with root privileges cannot attach to other unprivileged users > >> VMs, which seems to go against the principle of the root user. > >> > >> I have attached a Hotspot patch and JDK patch targeting 7u-dev to allow > >> root to attach to any user's VMs. I'd appreciate it if someone could take > >> a look. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Elliott > >> > >> [1] http://icedtea.classpath.org/thermostat/ > > > > Ping, just making sure this patch doesn't slip through the cracks. > > > > Thanks, > > Elliott > > -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
