On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 22:29:45 +0530, Bharath Vedartham said: > I was wondering how we can overwrite the copy functionality while > writing our own filesystem in linux. > VFS does not offer any sort of API for copy. I think it calls create and > write when we execute the copy the file/dir.
Which you can verify using strace. Which you should already be familiar with if you have the experience needed to write a usable filesystem. > I am interested in overwriting the way copy happens in my > filesystem(which I am writing for fun :p). And what, exactly, do you want copy to do differently on the API level, and on the file system level? _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
