Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One suggestion is missed. It is to provide system calls for copy. > That would also solve the problem.
No, it would not. If you read the POSIX.1 specification for cp carefully <http://www.unix.org/version3/online.html>, you will notice that the process for copying a regular file is carefully standardized. A POSIX.1-conforming cp implementation would not be allowed to copy additional streams, unless either additional options are given or the type of the file being copied is other than S_IFREG. And cp is just one example of a standardized file handling program. Gunnar -- http://omnibus.ruf.uni-freiburg.de/~gritter
