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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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.

It would be consistent with the documented semantics for other file 
operations.  Obviously, return zero only on EOF.

	-hpa

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