Re: Does sendfile() copy extended attributes?

Shaya Potter
2003-12-15T05:43:41Z

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 12:39, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> I want to use sendfile() to completely copy a file so that the copy is an
> EXACT, INDISTINGUISHABLE duplicate of the original.
>
> Hence, I need to know if sendfile() copies the extended attributes in
> addition to the file itself.
>
> While I have your attention, does sendfile() also copy the inode attributes
> (i.e. secure delete, compressed, etc.)?

sendfile acting as a sys_copy() is a 2.4 unsupported behavior. It
doesn't work on 2.6.

With that proviso, even in 2.4 it just operates on the page data of an
inode, it has no concept of any of the meta data.