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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20031111085323.M8854@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > Actually, I think we should have a: 
> > 
> > 	long copy_fd_to_fd (int src, int dst, int len)
> > 
> > type of systemcall. 
> 
> We have one, sendfile(2).
> 

It would be very nice if we could (a) expand the uses of sendfile(2),
and (b) have the libc do the fallback to read/write/mmap as needed.

	-hpa

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