Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ??
From: Ihar 'Philips' Filipau (filia_at_softhome.net)
Date: 11/11/03
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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:51:10 +0100 To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Florian Weimer wrote:
> Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
>
>>>This is fast turning into a creeping horror of aggregation. I defy anybody
>>>to create an API to cover all the options mentioned so far and *not* have it
>>>look like the process_clone horror we so roundly derided a few weeks ago.
>>
>> int sys_copy(int fd_src, int fd_dst)
>
>
> Doesn't work. You have to set the security attributes while you open
> fd_dst.
int new_fd = sys_copy( int src_fd ); /* cloned copy, out of any fs */
fchmod( new_fd, XXX_WHAT_EVER ); /* do the job. */
...
flink(new_fd, "/some/path/some/file/name"); /* commit to fs */
close(new_fd); /* bye-bye */
I beleive this can be more useful. Not only in naive tries to replace
cp(1) with kernel ;-)
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