Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:51:10 +0100 | From | "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <> | Subject | Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ?? |
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Florian Weimer wrote: > Andreas Dilger wrote: > > >>>This is fast turning into a creeping horror of aggregation. I defy anybody >>>to create an API to cover all the options mentioned so far and *not* have it >>>look like the process_clone horror we so roundly derided a few weeks ago. >> >> int sys_copy(int fd_src, int fd_dst) > > > Doesn't work. You have to set the security attributes while you open > fd_dst.
int new_fd = sys_copy( int src_fd ); /* cloned copy, out of any fs */ fchmod( new_fd, XXX_WHAT_EVER ); /* do the job. */ ... flink(new_fd, "/some/path/some/file/name"); /* commit to fs */ close(new_fd); /* bye-bye */
I beleive this can be more useful. Not only in naive tries to replace cp(1) with kernel ;-)
-- Ihar 'Philips' Filipau / with best regards from Saarbruecken. -- _ _ _ "... and for $64000 question, could you get yourself |_|*|_| vaguely familiar with the notion of on-topic posting?" |_|_|*| -- Al Viro @ LKML |*|*|*|
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