From: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ??
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:30:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03111907303600.25311@tabby> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031118154921.GA28942@mail.shareable.org>
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 09:49, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > s/EINTR/short count/, of course :)
> >
> > That would be buggy because existing users of sendfile don't know
> > about this and would silently only copy part of the file when a signal
> > happens.
>
> That doesn't make sense. There aren't any existing users of sendfile
> to copy files.
True. It also doesn't address the issue of what to do when the file copy is
being done on a remote server and not by something local. Synchronizing
a remote interrupt could really be nasty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-19 13:31 UTC|newest]
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2003-11-14 15:26 ` OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ?? Andi Kleen
2003-11-18 15:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-11-18 16:05 ` Andi Kleen
2003-11-18 16:25 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-11-19 13:30 ` Jesse Pollard [this message]
2003-11-18 16:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-19 2:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-19 4:04 ` Chris Adams
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2003-11-11 14:11 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-11-11 15:02 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-11-11 15:31 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-11-11 20:22 ` Jan Harkes
2003-11-11 20:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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2003-11-11 12:43 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-11-11 1:05 Albert Cahalan
2003-11-11 3:50 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-11-11 4:03 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2003-11-11 4:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-11 6:00 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-11-11 8:58 ` Florian Weimer
2003-11-11 10:27 ` jw schultz
2003-11-11 20:08 ` Jan Harkes
2003-11-12 15:36 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-20 17:21 ` Florian Weimer
2003-11-20 19:08 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-20 19:12 ` Florian Weimer
2003-11-20 19:44 ` Justin Cormack
2003-11-20 20:44 ` Timothy Miller
2003-11-20 21:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-11-20 21:30 ` Timothy Miller
2003-11-20 21:49 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-20 21:52 ` Timothy Miller
2003-11-20 21:58 ` Hua Zhong
2003-11-22 14:50 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-22 19:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-11-22 23:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-11-21 16:24 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-20 21:48 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-21 16:34 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-20 22:31 ` Xavier Bestel
2003-11-20 22:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-11-27 2:40 ` Robert White
2003-11-27 7:29 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-27 9:15 ` David Lang
2003-11-27 8:56 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-27 9:50 ` David Lang
2003-11-27 10:02 ` Jörn Engel
2003-11-27 10:58 ` David Lang
2003-12-01 16:20 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-11 8:52 ` Gábor Lénárt
2003-11-11 13:38 ` Rogier Wolff
2003-11-11 13:53 ` Jakub Jelinek
2003-11-11 13:58 ` David Woodhouse
2003-11-13 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-13 23:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-14 0:04 ` jw schultz
2003-11-14 0:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-14 1:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-14 1:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-11 14:11 ` Albert Cahalan
2003-11-12 15:19 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-14 3:42 ` Albert Cahalan
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2003-11-10 12:09 Bradley Chapman
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2003-11-10 12:08 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-11-10 13:29 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-10 14:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-11 20:57 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-11-10 15:19 ` David Woodhouse
2003-11-10 16:15 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-11 12:00 ` davide.rossetti
2003-11-11 12:08 ` Andreas Schwab
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2003-11-10 11:33 Davide Rossetti
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