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

[Matthew Garrett]

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...

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