Wouldn't that be better handled by O_APPEND?
Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.k...@canonical.com> 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 character other than / which >> can be reasonably relied upon to not be part of the name); for >example: >> >> LangCodes,BS,RT >> >> ... or ... >> >> LangCodes,6 > >This will get tricky when handling EFI_VARIABLE_APPEND_WRITE: this >attribute will never appear in the attributes returned by >GetVariable(), >but may be passed to SetVariable(). If we put attributes in the >filename, we'd need to handle writes to both names, and/or have >duplicate dentries for each variable. We could do it, but the >filesystem >interface might be a little messy. > >[Supporting append writes is essential for key database updates, which >may be signed] > >Cheers, > > >Jeremy -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
