linux-kernel - Re: [RFC,PATCH] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem

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Message-ID: <20120903032642.GA21904@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Mon, 3 Sep 2012 04:26:42 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@...onical.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem

On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 06:59:37PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Well, appending is an action, not really a property of the variable that sticks around, no?

We could do this for append, but what happens if an attribute with 
similar variables appears and doesn't neatly map to an O_ option? We 
can't really argue for limiting attributes purely because they don't map 
neatly onto POSIX semantics...

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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