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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ??
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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