Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:39:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:39:06 -0500 Received: from mail48-s.fg.online.no ([148.122.161.48]:40617 "EHLO mail48.fg.online.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:38:58 -0500 Message-Id: <200112201338.OAA23947@mail48.fg.online.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Svein Ove Aas Reply-To: svein.ove@aas.no To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: File copy system call proposal Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:38:50 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] In-Reply-To: <200112100544.fBA5isV223458@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20011220110936.A18142@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> In-Reply-To: <20011220110936.A18142@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 20. December 2001 11:09, Pavel Machek wrote: > > They need to get a clue. No need to work around their bugs in kernel. > > Anyway copyfile syscall would be nice for other reasons. (cp -a kernel > tree then apply patch without waiting for physical copy to be done > would be handy). > Pavel Never mind that it might save a great deal of space... I often operate with three/more different kernel trees, but the differences are often trivial. If the VFS created a COW node when I use cp -a I would, obviously, save a great deal of space; this goes for numerous other source trees too. Now there's a real world example for you. - Svein Ove Aas - 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/