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

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 07:29 -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote:

> > > sys_fscopy(...)
> 
> It is too simple to implement in user mode.

Is it? Please explain the simple steps which cp(1) should take in order
to observe that it is being asked to duplicate a file on a file system
such as CIFS (or NFSv4?) which allows the client to issue a 'copy file'
command over the network without actually transferring the data twice,
and to invoke such a command.

-- 
dwmw2

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