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Subject: Re: File copy system call proposal 
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jakob@unthought.net said:
>  Take a look at Win32, they have it.

Which is partly why when you want to copy a large file on an SMB-exported
file system, the client host doesn't have to actually read it all and write 
it back across the network - it can just issue a copyfile request.

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