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

[Florian Weimer]

Andreas Dilger wrote:

> > This is fast turning into a creeping horror of aggregation.  I defy anybody
> > to create an API to cover all the options mentioned so far and *not* have it
> > look like the process_clone horror we so roundly derided a few weeks ago.
> 
> 	int sys_copy(int fd_src, int fd_dst)

Doesn't work.  You have to set the security attributes while you open
fd_dst.
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