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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: George Greer <greerga@m-l.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: File copy system call proposal
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:07:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11478.1008860863@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112201001510.23808-100000@bacon.van.m-l.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112201001510.23808-100000@bacon.van.m-l.org>


greerga@m-l.org said:
>  What does a copy system call have to do with the file server program
> being smart enough to do a copy locally?  You can't do it with FTP (or
> at least the ftpd I have) but it's certainly not because
> read()+write() are insufficient. 

Think smbfs.

--
dwmw2



  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-20 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-08  3:42 File copy system call proposal Quinn Harris
2001-12-08  4:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-08  6:03   ` Quinn Harris
2001-12-08 13:57     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-09  0:19       ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-09  4:56         ` Quinn Harris
2001-12-10  5:44       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-09 20:25         ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-10 15:19         ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-13 10:01           ` Andreas Dilger
2001-12-13 21:17             ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-19 20:26               ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-20 10:09                 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-20 13:38                   ` Svein Ove Aas
2001-12-20 13:53                     ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-12-20 14:00                       ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-12-23  1:19                       ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-20 14:31                     ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-20 15:06                       ` George Greer
2001-12-20 15:07                         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-12-20 21:32                 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-12-08  4:25 ` Christian Lavoie
     [not found] ` <1007833194.17577.0.camel@buffy>
2001-12-08 19:23   ` Quinn Harris
2001-12-08 23:11     ` Ton Hospel
2001-12-09 15:35 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-10 11:50   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-10  2:49     ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-10 12:13     ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-10 15:20   ` vda
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-10 18:44 Petr Vandrovec

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