On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:41:07AM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > > UNIX doesn't have a copy systemcall, applications copy the data > > > manually. > > > > Oh, this is very unfortunate and should be a bigger issue to fix. > > Then you have to rewrite POSIX und SuSv3.
They don't say 'you must now have a copy syscall'. Having one that's actually used by system tools would be a great optimization for many network or distributed filesystems.
