From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Jakob Østergaard" <jakob@unthought.net>,
svein.ove@aas.no,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: File copy system call proposal
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 01:19:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011223011908.A40@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200112100544.fBA5isV223458@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <E16GnIg-0000V5-00@starship.berlin> <20011220110936.A18142@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <200112201338.OAA23947@mail48.fg.online.no> <20011220145328.C16650@unthought.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011220145328.C16650@unthought.net>; from jakob@unthought.net on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:53:28PM +0100
Hi!
> > Now there's a real world example for you.
>
> No graphical file manager would use it - how would you show progress
> information to the user when coping a single huge file ?
They can't do that today (think writeback)...
> So, someone might hack up a 'cp' that used it, and in a few years when
> everyone is at 2.4.x (where x >= version with copyfile()) maybe some
> distribution would ship it.
>
> Take a look at Win32, then have it. Then, look further, and you'll see
> that they have system calls for just about everything else. It's
Windows are stupid. But copyfile is different from read+write -- it
allows you to do on-server copy and allows COW.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-23 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-08 3:42 File copy system call proposal Quinn Harris
2001-12-08 4:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-08 6:03 ` Quinn Harris
2001-12-08 13:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-09 0:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-09 4:56 ` Quinn Harris
2001-12-10 5:44 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-09 20:25 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-10 15:19 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-13 10:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-12-13 21:17 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-19 20:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-20 10:09 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-20 13:38 ` Svein Ove Aas
2001-12-20 13:53 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-12-20 14:00 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-12-23 1:19 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-12-20 14:31 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-20 15:06 ` George Greer
2001-12-20 15:07 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-20 21:32 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-12-08 4:25 ` Christian Lavoie
[not found] ` <1007833194.17577.0.camel@buffy>
2001-12-08 19:23 ` Quinn Harris
2001-12-08 23:11 ` Ton Hospel
2001-12-09 15:35 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-10 11:50 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-10 2:49 ` Hans Reiser
2001-12-10 12:13 ` Pavel Machek
2001-12-10 15:20 ` vda
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2001-12-10 18:44 Petr Vandrovec
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