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To: George Greer <greerga@m-l.org>
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Subject: Re: File copy system call proposal 
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greerga@m-l.org said:
>  What does a copy system call have to do with the file server program
> being smart enough to do a copy locally?  You can't do it with FTP (or
> at least the ftpd I have) but it's certainly not because
> read()+write() are insufficient. 

Think smbfs.

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dwmw2


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