On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:53:28PM +0100, Jakob Østergaard wrote:
...
> > Now there's a real world example for you.
>
> No graphical file manager would use it - how would you show progress
> information to the user when coping a single huge file ?
Sorry for replying to my own mail - I shouldn't send mail while talking
to people at the same time...
The progress stuff is of course relevant only when you cannot do COW.
>
> So, someone might hack up a 'cp' that used it, and in a few years when
> everyone is at 2.4.x (where x >= version with copyfile()) maybe some
> distribution would ship it.
>
> Take a look at Win32, then have it. Then, look further, and you'll see
> that they have system calls for just about everything else. It's
> a slippery slope, leading to horrors like CreateProcess() which takes
> TEN arguments, where about half of them are pointers to STRUCTURES.
s/then have it/they have it/
Sorry,
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