Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:23:09 +0100 (CET) | From | "davide.rossetti" <> | Subject | Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ?? |
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "davide.rossetti" <rossetti@roma1.infn.it> writes: > > > Maybe I was misunderstood... I'm asking why the libc/iso/ansi/posix > > engineer did not add the spec a user-mode API to do copy file to file ??? > > Because there was no prior art.
:) but late revisions of specs are really recent!!!
folks are talking about implementing all sort of stuff (web servers, parallel filesystems, ...) (partly) in kernel mode and no one cares of (maybe accelerated) fs copies ???
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