Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ??
From: Jakob Oestergaard
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 15:58:02 EST
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:22:22AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:29:15AM -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote:
> > Now back to the copy.. You don't have to use a read/write loop- mmap
> > is faster. And this is the other reason for not doing it in Kernel mode.
>
> Actually, last I checked, read/write was actually faster. Linus
> explained why a month or two ago.
It would also not break on large files...
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