Spam <[email protected]> said:
> Christer Weinigel <[email protected]> said:
[...]
> > But this still solves only part of the problem. A backup application
> > won't have any use for a copyfile syscall, it will need to be taught
> > about streams.
> Yes, but backup programs always needed to be taught about new
> features. Be it new type of files, attributes or meta-data. I think
> that teaching backup applications is far better than teaching every
> application.
Strange... tar(1) is quite capable of backing up .mp3 files, which weren't
around when tar was born...
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