On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:44:25 -0400 Brad King <brad.k...@kitware.com> wrote:
> On 05/30/2014 06:27 PM, Alessandro Di Federico wrote: > > currently there's no FS-independent syscall > [snip] > > I'd go for detecting if `cp` is from GNU coreutils and if it's > > recent > > I think this is the simplest approach for now. How do you propose > to do the detection? Run "cp --help" and check for "reflink" in the > output? I suggest to check version from `cp --version`, simply looking for "--reflink" in the help introduces the risk of matching version having "--reflink" but not "--reflink=auto". I'm very new to CMake code base, what is the most appropriate location for a check like this? BTW: I've been told that in future reflinks and server-side copies (useful for network file systems such as NFS and Samba) will be handled in a single way at VFS level. If such an API emerges we can think to integrate it, but for now `cp --reflink` is for sure the simplest and most future-proof solution. -- Ale -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
