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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:49:10 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:41:07AM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> > > UNIX doesn't have a copy systemcall, applications copy the data
> > > manually.
> > 
> >   Oh, this is very unfortunate and should be a bigger issue to fix.
> 
> Then you have to rewrite POSIX und SuSv3.

They don't say 'you must now have a copy syscall'.  Having one that's
actually used by system tools would be a great optimization for many
network or distributed filesystems.