Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Bernd Petrovitsch
2004-08-27T07:41:07Z

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
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