Re: bin/52512: Duplicate files prevent veriexecctl from loading signature file

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/52512; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/52512: Duplicate files prevent veriexecctl from loading
 signature file
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:33:43 +0800 (+08)

 On Tue, 29 Aug 2017, Paul Goyette wrote:
 
 > It is unclear whether we should modify veriexecctl to not set the error for 
 > EEXIST, or if we should modify veriexecgen to not generate multiple entries 
 > (with different names) for the same file.  (It seems to me unreasonable to 
 > expect the user to remove the duplicates.)
 
 A third option would be to modify the kernel code to not complain when 
 attempting to add a new entry, as long as the new fingerprint type and 
 value match the existing values.