From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
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In-Reply-To: <3D1AE380.14118E3@strakt.com>; from Boyd Roberts on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:05:52PM +0200
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:21:03 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:05:52PM +0200, Boyd Roberts wrote:
>
> Lucio De Re wrote:
> > Using DMA at the user level sounds like a major burden to me, and
> > hardly portable.
>
> nah, physio() was your friend.

With no consideration for the underlying filesystem?  Not up my
alley at all :-)

To answer Boyd's implied question elsewhere, my first encounter
with a recursive "copy" command was in SCO Xenix.  It was called
"copy", not "cp" and optionally preserved file properties.

Hard to check on that bit of history, these days.

++L