Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263468AbTKKMJG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:09:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263472AbTKKMJG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:09:06 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:13496 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263468AbTKKMJD (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:09:03 -0500 To: davide.rossetti@roma1.infn.it Cc: Jesse Pollard , "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ?? References: From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: I'm a fuschia bowling ball somewhere in Brittany Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:08:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: (davide rossetti's message of "Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:00:59 +0100 (CET)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 704 Lines: 19 "davide.rossetti" writes: > Maybe I was misunderstood... I'm asking why the libc/iso/ansi/posix > engineer did not add the spec a user-mode API to do copy file to file ??? Because there was no prior art. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N?rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/