Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-27T08:51:23Z

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.