Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ?? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:14:35 -0500 |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 23:03:26 EST, Daniel Gryniewicz said:
> Plus a sys_copy() syscall could be used as a generic way for filesystems > to set up Copy-on-Write. Right now, you'd need to have userspace call > sys-reiser4 or something like that.
This is fast turning into a creeping horror of aggregation. I defy anybody to create an API to cover all the options mentioned so far and *not* have it look like the process_clone horror we so roundly derided a few weeks ago. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |