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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:37:24 +0200
From: Gunnar Ritter <Gunnar.Ritter@pluto.uni-freiburg.de>
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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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Spam <spam@tnonline.net> wrote:

>   One suggestion is missed. It is to provide system calls for copy.
>   That would also solve the problem.

No, it would not. If you read the POSIX.1 specification for cp
carefully <http://www.unix.org/version3/online.html>, you will
notice that the process for copying a regular file is carefully
standardized. A POSIX.1-conforming cp implementation would not
be allowed to copy additional streams, unless either additional
options are given or the type of the file being copied is other
than S_IFREG. And cp is just one example of a standardized file
handling program.

	Gunnar

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