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

From: Timothy Miller
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 16:58:29 EST




Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
It is, though. If you run out of space copying a file, you know it when you're copying. Applications don't usually expect to get out-of-space errors while overwriting something in the middle of a file.


What about sparse files?


Ah, good point. Never mind. :)


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