diff --git a/src/turbostat.c b/src/turbostat.c
index 913511f72e612c12d58ad01bec101ceea5df4875..2d8a08e646319b961f8ffb24f1a8654bb470c23f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/turbostat.c
+++ b/src/turbostat.c
static int
check_permissions(void)
{
-#ifdef HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H
- struct __user_cap_header_struct cap_header_data;
- cap_user_header_t cap_header = &cap_header_data;
- struct __user_cap_data_struct cap_data_data;
- cap_user_data_t cap_data = &cap_data_data;
- int ret = 0;
-#endif /* HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H */
if (getuid() == 0) {
/* We have everything we need */
return 0;
-#ifndef HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H
+#if !defined(HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H) && !defined(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)
} else {
ERROR("turbostat plugin: Initialization failed: this plugin "
"requires collectd to run as root");
return -1;
}
-#else /* HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H */
+#else /* HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H && CAP_SYS_RAWIO */
}
- /* check for CAP_SYS_RAWIO */
- cap_header->pid = getpid();
- cap_header->version = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION;
- if (capget(cap_header, cap_data) < 0) {
- ERROR("turbostat plugin: capget failed");
- return -1;
- }
+ int ret = 0;
- if ((cap_data->effective & (1 << CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) == 0) {
+ if (check_capability(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) != 0) {
WARNING("turbostat plugin: Collectd doesn't have the "
"CAP_SYS_RAWIO capability. If you don't want to run "
"collectd as root, try running \"setcap "
"collectd a special capability (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) and read "
"access to /dev/cpu/*/msr (see previous warnings)");
return ret;
-#endif /* HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H */
+#endif /* HAVE_SYS_CAPABILITY_H && CAP_SYS_RAWIO */
}
static int