xen/xen-xm-top-needs-root.diff

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From: Charles Coffing <ccoffing@novell.com>
Upstream: no
Index: xen-3.1-testing/tools/python/xen/xm/main.py
===================================================================
--- xen-3.1-testing.orig/tools/python/xen/xm/main.py
+++ xen-3.1-testing/tools/python/xen/xm/main.py
@@ -1755,6 +1755,10 @@ def xm_debug_keys(args):
def xm_top(args):
arg_check(args, "top", 0)
+ # A hack to get a clear error message if ran as non-root
+ if os.geteuid() != 0:
+ raise IOError()
+
os.execvp('xentop', ['xentop'])
def xm_dmesg(args):