Re: [RFC v0 1/4] vfs: add copy_range syscall and vfs entry point

[Zach Brown]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 07:47:19PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 07:44:05PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > Why introduce a new syscall instead of extending sys_splice?
> > 
> > Personally, I think it's ugly to have different operations use the same
> > syscall just because their arguments match.
> 
> Fair enough.  I think adding a (currently unused) flags parameter would
> make sense for future-proofing.

Yeah, that seems reasonble.  

- z
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