Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262902AbTKTV5g (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:57:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262913AbTKTV5g (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:57:36 -0500 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:10515 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262902AbTKTV5f (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:57:35 -0500 Message-ID: <3FBD37B5.3090500@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:52:53 -0500 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maciej Zenczykowski CC: Andreas Dilger , Justin Cormack , Jesse Pollard , linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 555 Lines: 19 Maciej Zenczykowski wrote: >>It is, though. If you run out of space copying a file, you know it when >>you're copying. Applications don't usually expect to get out-of-space >>errors while overwriting something in the middle of a file. > > > What about sparse files? Ah, good point. Never mind. :) - 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/