From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Overwriting copy functionality in filesystem
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 20:05:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190323190539.GB30609@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190323165945.GA13199@bharath12345-Inspiron-5559>
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:29:45PM +0530, Bharath Vedartham wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I was wondering how we can overwrite the copy functionality while
> writing our own filesystem in linux.
> VFS does not offer any sort of API for copy. I think it calls create and
> write when we execute the copy the file/dir.
> I am interested in overwriting the way copy happens in my
> filesystem(which I am writing for fun :p).
There is no "copy" syscall, sorry.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-23 16:59 Overwriting copy functionality in filesystem Bharath Vedartham
2019-03-23 19:01 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-03-24 13:18 ` Bharath Vedartham
2019-03-24 14:06 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-03-28 18:30 ` Bharath Vedartham
2019-03-28 20:07 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2019-03-23 19:03 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2019-03-24 13:21 ` Bharath Vedartham
2019-03-23 19:05 ` Greg KH [this message]
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