Lab persons have complained about the HDF files created by the data recorder being owned by root. Unless they change manually change the file permissions from the command line (which requires root access), any tools that modify the files will also need root permissions. (Reading the files is fine as-is, as far as I can tell.)
Also, if we have root own the files, we may run the risk of giving people unfamiliar with *nix filesystem permissions the impression that running things with sudo will make them work.
The files are owned by root because RTXI is run as root.
Lab persons have complained about the HDF files created by the data recorder being owned by root. Unless they change manually change the file permissions from the command line (which requires root access), any tools that modify the files will also need root permissions. (Reading the files is fine as-is, as far as I can tell.)
Also, if we have root own the files, we may run the risk of giving people unfamiliar with *nix filesystem permissions the impression that running things with sudo will make them work.
The files are owned by root because RTXI is run as root.