On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 8:52 PM Rick Macklem <rmack...@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> Wall, Stephen wrote: > > Could the as yet unused options param have a bit assigned to trigger the > new > > behavior? Inform the linux community of the addition and let them > decide if they > > would like to adopt it as well. > I'll assume you are referring to the "flags" argument when you say "param" > above. > > You could. However, since the Linux man page says it will return EINVAL if > the "flags" argument is non-zero, you've still introduced an > incompatibility > w.r.t. the Linux behaviour. > It does make it clear that copy_file_range(2) will have the non-Linux > behaviour > when the flag is specified, which I think is a good idea. > I think it's just syntactic salt. Why require extra work for so little purpose? My opinion is that if we can make it work for character devices, we should. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
