Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ??

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:29:15AM -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> Now back to the copy.. You don't have to use a read/write loop- mmap
> is faster. And this is the other reason for not doing it in Kernel mode.

Actually, last I checked, read/write was actually faster.  Linus
explained why a month or two ago.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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