On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 10:38 +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote: > On 01/25/2013 09:18 PM, Matt Fleming wrote: > >> 4. EFI_VARIABLE_APPEND_WRITE with EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES truncates size but you > >> can still read its content. > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by this. Could you please explain? > > Oops, this one is incorrect. I was testing EFI_VARIABLE_APPEND_WRITE > using this: > > printf "\x47\x00\x00\x00\x00" >test-1-$guid > > So it truncates the file before writing, but efivarfs figures out the right > size afterwards. The size remains zero if the write fails. > > I should be using this for appending: > > printf "\x47\x00\x00\x00\x00" >>test-1-$guid Does this mean that these two test cases work as expected? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
