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SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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.

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