Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Hans Reiser]

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:43 +0200, Spam wrote:
>  
>
> > > Previously Spam wrote:
> > >      
> > >
> > > >  How  so?  The whole idea is that the underlaying OS that handles the
> > > >  copying  should  also  know  to  copy  everything, otherwise you can
> > > >  implement  everything  into  applications  and  just  skip the whole
> > > >  filesystem part.
> > > >        
> > > UNIX doesn't have a copy systemcall, applications copy the data
> > > manually.
> > >      
> >  Oh, this is very unfortunate and should be a bigger issue to fix.
> >    
>
> Then you have to rewrite POSIX und SuSv3.
>
> 	Bernd
>  
Spam is right.  Posix is a standard, not a vision, and the future is 
always a vision not a standard.
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