Frank Hofmann - Solaris Sustaining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't see why the egg-laying, milk-giving woolly UNIX syscall pig
> that is ioctl() couldn't be genetically engineered to concatenate
> files as well ...
>
> Anyone willing to work on a ufs prototype ? I actually believe this
> could be done in a ~100 lines of code in ufs ... if you put in some
> restrictions onto the sizes of files that can be concatenated (if
> you don't, you'll have to copy a possibly huge number of partial
> block lists).
How do you intend to handle files that are not at the end of a list
and that do not end on a block boundary?
Jörg
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