Re: [PATCH] cowlinks v2

Pavel Machek
2004-04-02T21:37:34Z

Hi!

On Pá 02-04-04 11:28:55, Ross Biro wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 20:23:58 +0200, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > > > > If you really want cowlinks and hardlinks to be intermixed freely, I'd
> > > > > happily agree with you as soon as you can define the behaviour for all
> > > > > possible cases in a simple document and none of them make me scared
> > > > > again. Show me that it is possible and makes sense.
>
> Maybe it's easiest to view the proposed copyfile() as being
> semantically equivalent to cp from the point of view of anything above
> the actual file system (modulo running out of space at weird times)

Yes, this is what I was trying to propose.
Pavel
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