Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 May 2004 15:26:02 -0400 | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT PATCH COW] proof of concept impementation of cowlinks | From | Jan Harkes <> |
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On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 05:53:59PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > A real problem is that copyfile() has all errno's from create(), > sendfile() and unlink() combined, which doesn't make error handling in > userspace easy. "It could be this, that or another error" is the kind > of mess I always hated about Windows, so I should try to do a little > better.
Well, if you leave the create and unlink up to the application and simply pass open filedescriptors to copyfile... But then it would be equivalent to your new sendfile.
Copyfile can trivially be implemented in libc. I don't see why it would have to be a system call. If a network filesystem wants to optimize the file copying it could do this based on the sendfile data. If source and destination are within the same filesystem and we're copying the whole file starting at offset 0, send a copyfile RPC.
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