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Why not just turn off recognition of "rm" in the efivarfs? That is, the response to "unlink" of a file that represents a system abstraction of firmware should b
by JulianMorrison 11y ago
Why not just turn off recognition of "rm" in the efivarfs? That is, the response to "unlink" of a file that represents a system abstraction of firmware should be something drastic only to the unlinker. SIGSEGV or something. "Go away, don't do that."
- bcg1 11y agoIts far easier to just close the ticket and tell everyone to piss off.
- dap 11y agoThat sounds like a sign that the filesystem may be the wrong abstraction for this.
- eeZi 11y agoWell there are use cases where you'd want to remove an EFI variable.
- cnvogel 11y agoThen just require the efivars to have different semantics, just have a look like unbind works for drivers. If you really want to be super cautious, add a safeguard to enable this. echo 1 >/sys/...efi.../enable_remove echo varname >/sys/...efi.../remove_var