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From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH COW] sys_copyfile
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:30:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040427113052.GD6620@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040426092045.GC895@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:20:45AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> Adds a new syscall, copyfile() which does as the name sais.

I think it's actually better to use sendfile() rather then creating a
new syscall:

  ssize_t sendfile(int out_fd, int in_fd, off_t *offset, size_t count)

In that way you can create the file in the usual way and copy the
contents with an already existing syscall.

IMHO sendfile() has been a wrong name in the first place, copyfd()
would have been better. Why limit it to network traffic only?


Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-27 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-26  9:20 [PATCH COW] sys_copyfile Jörn Engel
2004-04-27 11:30 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2004-04-27 11:47   ` Jörn Engel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-27 15:58 Steve French
2004-04-27 16:42 ` Jörn Engel
2004-04-27 19:46   ` Steve French
2004-04-27 19:55     ` Jörn Engel

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