explain why extended privileges (sudo, doas) are needed + describe upstream and version from shipped dependency

tw4452852 / zbpf

Writing eBPF in Zig

https://tw4452852.github.io/zbpf/

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explain why extended privileges (sudo, doas) are needed + describe upstream and version from shipped dependency #1

Closed matu3ba closed 1 year ago

matu3ba commented 1 year ago

Afaik, only (temporary) attaching stuff to the Kernel needs extended privileges, not building. I guess you are tracking a release of https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf ?

tw4452852 commented 1 year ago

There are two things here that need root privileges:

Structure definition during building time.
Running unit tests.

matu3ba commented 1 year ago

Thanks, feel free to close then unless you think its worth to mention.

tw4452852 commented 1 year ago

As https://github.com/tw4452852/zbpf/commit/bee06176592aef273207e892e307721931af4060 landed, we don't need root privilege to compile right now. FYI.