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From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
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Previously Spam wrote:
>   How  so?  The whole idea is that the underlaying OS that handles the
>   copying  should  also  know  to  copy  everything, otherwise you can
>   implement  everything  into  applications  and  just  skip the whole
>   filesystem part.

UNIX doesn't have a copy systemcall, applications copy the data
manually.

Wichert.

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