linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: 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: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:49:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031118154921.GA28942@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p734qx7rmyf.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de>

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.

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-18 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1068512710.722.161.camel@cube.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <20031111133859.GA11115@bitwizard.nl.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20031111085323.M8854@devserv.devel.redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]     ` <bp0p5m$lke$1@cesium.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]       ` <20031113233915.GO1649@x30.random.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]         ` <3FB4238A.40605@zytor.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]           ` <20031114011009.GP1649@x30.random.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]             ` <3FB42CC4.9030009@zytor.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-11-14 15:26               ` OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ?? Andi Kleen
2003-11-18 15:49                 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-11-18 16:05                   ` Andi Kleen
2003-11-18 16:25                     ` Trond Myklebust
2003-11-19 13:30                   ` Jesse Pollard
2003-11-18 16:58                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-19  2:12                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-19  4:04                 ` Chris Adams
     [not found] <Qvw7.5Qf.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <QxRl.17Y.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <Qy0W.1sk.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <QyaB.1GK.17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <QzSZ.4x1.1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <QCHh.X6.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-11-11  9:51           ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-11-11 10:41             ` jw schultz
     [not found] ` <QH4e.eV.3@gated-at.bofh.it>
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
     [not found] <QDtX.2dq.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <QDtX.2dq.17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <QDtX.2dq.19@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <QDtX.2dq.21@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <QDtX.2dq.23@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <QDtY.2dq.25@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <QDtX.2dq.13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]             ` <QEg2.3zi.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-10 12:09 Bradley Chapman
2003-11-10 18:47 ` Tomas Konir
2003-11-10 22:44 ` Derek Foreman
     [not found] <QiyV.1k3.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
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
2003-11-11 12:23         ` davide.rossetti
2003-11-10 11:33 Davide Rossetti

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20031118154921.GA28942@mail.shareable.org \
    --to=jamie@shareable.org \
    --cc=ak@suse.de \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).