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Multi-user systems

Multi-user systems

Posted Jan 5, 2006 6:46 UTC (Thu) by ringerc (guest, #3071)
Parent article: Some new system calls

This would be bliss if it became widely used on multi-user systems. If only `cp' was tweaked to use it when available the server at work would probably gain quite a bit, since we wouldn't be throwing out piles of perfectly good cached binaries and user data in favour of some disk blocks that'll only be used once.


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