Re: File copy system call proposal

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:31:27 +0000


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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dwmw2

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