Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hans Reiser
2004-08-27T08:05:02Z

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:43 +0200, Spam wrote:
>
>
>>>Previously Spam wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> How so? The whole idea is that the underlaying OS that handles the
>>>> copying should also know to copy everything, otherwise you can
>>>> implement everything into applications and just skip the whole
>>>> filesystem part.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>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.
>
> Bernd
>
>
Spam is right. Posix is a standard, not a vision, and the future is
always a vision not a standard.