Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263475AbTKKMXM (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:23:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263489AbTKKMXM (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:23:12 -0500 Received: from apegate.roma1.infn.it ([141.108.7.31]:40461 "EHLO apona.ape") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263475AbTKKMXL (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2003 07:23:11 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:23:09 +0100 (CET) From: "davide.rossetti" Reply-To: davide.rossetti@roma1.infn.it To: Andreas Schwab cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 973 Lines: 25 On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Andreas Schwab wrote: > "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. :) but late revisions of specs are really recent!!! folks are talking about implementing all sort of stuff (web servers, parallel filesystems, ...) (partly) in kernel mode and no one cares of (maybe accelerated) fs copies ??? -- ______/ Rossetti Davide INFN - Roma I - APE group \______________ pho +390649914507/412 web: http://apegate.roma1.infn.it/~rossetti fax +390649914423 email: davide.rossetti@roma1.infn.it - 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/