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Subject: Re: [9fans] ideas for helpful system io functions
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2009/12/7 Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>:
> I think he wants copyfile + a kproc.

yup, i was thinking of inferno's sys->stream().

but neither is in a position to do the kind of redundancy
optimisation that sam was talking about, AFAICS.
at least it can avoid copying by calling bread and bwrite.