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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#24399: FICLONE for coreutils; copy_file_range? |
| Date: | Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:18:17 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 |
Pádraig Brady wrote:
One quite awkward thing at present is if the file system doesn't implement the syscall, it falls back to do_splice_direct which is basically sendfile(), and that will expand holes.
OK, thanks for the info. It sounds like copy_file_range is not ready for prime-time, then. Its use of a size_t to represent a file size seems like it is obviously wrong, as well.
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