Re: File copy system call proposal

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 10:07:43 EST


greerga@m-l.org said:
> What does a copy system call have to do with the file server program
> being smart enough to do a copy locally? You can't do it with FTP (or
> at least the ftpd I have) but it's certainly not because
> read()+write() are insufficient.

Think smbfs.

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dwmw2

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