torvalds@transmeta.com said:
> But /bin/cp cannot do the same, at least not without teaching it to
> do the same thing as for a recursive directory copy (which a regular
> UNIX cp wouldn't even try to do on a regular file). But the recursive
> directory copy approach should work.
Actually, a copyfile() system call would be able to do this transparently¹.
This is one of the things I like about SMB - if you want to copy a 400MB file
from one place on the server to the another, you don't need to actually
transfer all its data over the wire.
-- dwmw2¹ Not that I think it _should_, mind you. It doesn't help tar(1).
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