From: Charles Duffy <Charles_Duffy@messageone.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kvm: Qemu: save nvram
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:00:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gie33l$5ns$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <706158FABBBA044BAD4FE898A02E4BC21C7FCDE8@pdsmsx503.ccr.corp.intel.com>
Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> Charles Duffy wrote:
>> Speaking with my end-user hat on, this seems to violate the principal
>> of least surprise:
>>
>> I would expect NVRAM contents to be discarded, not saved to a file in
>> the current working directory, if no relevant option were given on the
>> command line.
>
> Maybe better to generate a temporary file to save the data instead of discarding it?
An unlinked temporary file as default behavior makes good sense -- it
doesn't leave anything sitting around the user didn't ask for or doesn't
expect, so it wouldn't be surprising behavior to me as an end-user, but
provides a method for persisting nvram contents during a single session.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-18 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-02 2:25 [PATCH] Kvm: Qemu: save nvram Zhang, Yang
2008-12-02 2:25 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-02 5:27 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-02 5:27 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-02 10:31 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-02 10:31 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-02 13:01 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-02 13:01 ` Avi Kivity
2008-12-02 13:10 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-02 13:10 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-12-03 6:02 ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-12-03 6:02 ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-12-03 6:12 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-03 6:12 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-16 9:21 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-16 9:21 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-17 18:39 ` Charles Duffy
2008-12-18 5:30 ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-12-18 18:00 ` Charles Duffy [this message]
2008-12-19 1:56 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-24 5:27 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-24 5:27 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-24 5:34 ` Zhang, Yang
2008-12-24 5:34 ` Zhang, Yang
2009-01-15 6:57 ` FW: " Zhang, Yang
2009-01-15 6:57 ` Zhang, Yang
2009-01-15 9:57 ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-15 9:57 ` Avi Kivity
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