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Re:Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard... by rando3826 on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:38PM (#10999776)
In linux, there is the immutable file attribute which won't let root rm the file without first changing it with chattr.
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Re:Systemd mounted efivarfs read-write, allowing motherboard... by ploxiln on Friday January 29, 2016 @09:11PM (#11000157)
File attributes need to be implemented by the filesystem. efivars is a pseudo-filesystem which does not implement them. It could, but that is one of the more needlessly complicated solutions...
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