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
Hi hpa,
> Well, appending is an action, not really a property of the variable
> that sticks around, no?
True, but they're still all defined as the same thing in the UEFI spec.
If you're looking to define which attributes to pass, you now need to
know the extra information that you pass most of th
Well, appending is an action, not really a property of the variable that sticks
around, no?
Jeremy Kerr wrote:
>hi hpa,
>
>> Wouldn't that be better handled by O_APPEND?
>
>Possibly, but this then means that there are now two "interfaces" that
>specify the variable attributes.
>
>[Also, in that
hi hpa,
> Wouldn't that be better handled by O_APPEND?
Possibly, but this then means that there are now two "interfaces" that
specify the variable attributes.
[Also, in that case we should support the same mechanism through open();
llseek(0, SEEK_END) then, right?]
In general, I think the attri
Wouldn't that be better handled by O_APPEND?
Jeremy Kerr wrote:
>Hi hpa,
>
>Thanks for the review!
>
>> However, I have a question... rather than putting the attributes as
>the
>> first data bytes, would it be better to make it either part of the
>> filename (assuming there is at least one cha
Hi hpa,
Thanks for the review!
However, I have a question... rather than putting the attributes as the
first data bytes, would it be better to make it either part of the
filename (assuming there is at least one character other than / which
can be reasonably relied upon to not be part of the nam
On 08/30/2012 02:30 AM, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> From: Matthew Garrett
>
> The existing EFI variables code only supports variables of up to 1024
> bytes. This limitation existed in version 0.99 of the EFI specification,
> but was removed before any full releases. Since variables can now be
> larger t
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