Bug#754947: ITP: tiptop -- performance monitoring tool for Linux

[Steve <steve@steve.org.uk>]

> Tiptop is a performance monitoring tool for Linux. It provides
> a dynamic real-time view of the tasks running in the system.
> Tiptop is very similar to the top utility, but most of the information
> displayed comes from hardware counters.

  Note that if you want the -K/--kernel support to work the tool
 must be a) launched by root, or b) installed setuid(root).

  I'd strongly recommend against the latter as there are potential
 security issues.

  (The code tries to drop privileges for the "-o outfile" handling,
 for example, but does not do the same for the "-W error.file" handler.
 If the code is installed setuid(root) the user can overwrite any
 file on the system with ease.)


Steve
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