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Date:      Sat, 22 Apr 2000 19:41:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brian Beattie <beattie@beattie-home.net>
To:        Michael Bacarella <mbac@nyct.net>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Double buffered cp(1)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004221941220.32955-100000@raven.pdx.beattie-home.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004221320250.38433-100000@bsd1.nyct.net>

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On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote:

> It seems silly to implement something as trivial and straightforward as
> copying a file in userland. The process designated to copy a file just
> sits in a tight loop invoking the read()/write() syscalls
> repeatedly. Since this operation is already system bound and very simple,
> what's the arguement against absorbing it into the kernel?
>

VMS
 



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