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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2019-02-10 12:08:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2019-02-10 12:08:04 -0800 |
| commit | abeb357041f40ccf2dd715cab5e2860ceb851eb7 (patch) | |
| tree | a8aa1bf1dcabfcf28c49de8c87408c85aafadb50 /pcap-dpdk.c | |
| parent | 901a9a3ee8c9e32545e930d43e2a2f5b3490cf49 (diff) | |
Don't explicitly check for root permission.
Let DPDK tell us if we don't have sufficient permission to use it;
rte_eal_init() appears to return -1 and set rte_errno to EACCES in that
case, and we now handle that case ourselves.
Diffstat (limited to 'pcap-dpdk.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | pcap-dpdk.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/pcap-dpdk.c b/pcap-dpdk.c index 9b324e6b..df4bfd49 100644 --- a/pcap-dpdk.c +++ b/pcap-dpdk.c @@ -581,16 +581,6 @@ static int dpdk_pre_init(char * ebuf) return 1; } } - // check for root permission - // XXX - is it sufficient to call rte_eal_init() and check for - // EACCES? - if( geteuid() != 0) - { - RTE_LOG(ERR, USER1, "%s\n", DPDK_ERR_PERM_MSG); - pcap_snprintf(ebuf, PCAP_ERRBUF_SIZE, - "DPDK requires that it run as root"); - return PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED; - } // init EAL ptr_dpdk_cfg = getenv(DPDK_CFG_ENV_NAME); // set default log level to debug |