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

[Linus Torvalds]

On 14 Nov 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> That would be buggy because existing users of sendfile don't know
> about this and would silently only copy part of the file when a signal
> happens.

Don't be silly.

Existing sendfile users had _better_ accept short writes.

They happen all the time. If the destination is the network, it _will_ be 
interruptible.

		Linus

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