Messages in this thread | | | From | Svein Ove Aas <> | Subject | Re: File copy system call proposal | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:38:50 +0100 |
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On Thursday 20. December 2001 11:09, Pavel Machek wrote: > > They need to get a clue. No need to work around their bugs in kernel. > > Anyway copyfile syscall would be nice for other reasons. (cp -a kernel > tree then apply patch without waiting for physical copy to be done > would be handy). > Pavel
Never mind that it might save a great deal of space... I often operate with three/more different kernel trees, but the differences are often trivial. If the VFS created a COW node when I use cp -a I would, obviously, save a great deal of space; this goes for numerous other source trees too.
Now there's a real world example for you.
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