Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Gunnar Ritter]

Spam <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Spam <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>   One suggestion is missed. It is to provide system calls for copy.
> >>   That would also solve the problem.
> > No, it would not. If you read the POSIX.1 specification for cp
> > carefully <http://www.unix.org/version3/online.html>, you will
> > notice that the process for copying a regular file is carefully
> > standardized. A POSIX.1-conforming cp implementation would not
> > be allowed to copy additional streams, unless either additional
> > options are given or the type of the file being copied is other
> > than S_IFREG. And cp is just one example of a standardized file
> > handling program.
>   It would solve the problem in Linux. However, it may not be POSIX.1
>   compatible. On the other hand I read that NTFS 5.0 is POSIX.1
>   compliant - and Windows uses copy system call.

You should obviously take a thorough read of at least the Base
Definitions, section 2, 'Conformance' of POSIX.1 before you further
comment on this issue.

	Gunnar
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