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

[Andreas Schwab]

"davide.rossetti" <rossetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Andreas.

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