Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:00:37 +0100 | From | Jakob Østergaard <> | Subject | Re: File copy system call proposal |
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:53:28PM +0100, Jakob Østergaard wrote: ... > > 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 ?
Sorry for replying to my own mail - I shouldn't send mail while talking to people at the same time...
The progress stuff is of course relevant only when you cannot do COW.
> > 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 > a slippery slope, leading to horrors like CreateProcess() which takes > TEN arguments, where about half of them are pointers to STRUCTURES.
s/then have it/they have it/
Sorry,
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