> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> > same can be achieved by running RT userspace code). This is why things
> > like sys_copyfile() or sys_movedirectorytree_atomically() would be a good
>
> what about sendfile() for copying ? or rename() for moving a directory
> tree ? if rename() can't do it, you're on different filesystems and that'd
> require locking both. hairy..
Being on different filesystems is the only situation I was talking about.
What do you mean by "hairy.." ? That it cannot be done efficiently or
what?
Tigran.
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