Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:47:28 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH COW] sys_copyfile |
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On Tue, 27 April 2004 13:30:52 +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:20:45AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > > Adds a new syscall, copyfile() which does as the name sais. > > I think it's actually better to use sendfile() rather then creating a > new syscall: > > ssize_t sendfile(int out_fd, int in_fd, off_t *offset, size_t count) > > In that way you can create the file in the usual way and copy the > contents with an already existing syscall. > > IMHO sendfile() has been a wrong name in the first place, copyfd() > would have been better. Why limit it to network traffic only?
See an earlier patch of mine. :)
Also, my grand goal is copy on write (cow) for files. copyfile() is just another step in that direction.
Jörn
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