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Why not have both semantics

Why not have both semantics

Posted Apr 9, 2004 12:16 UTC (Fri) by perlid (guest, #6533)
Parent article: COW Links

Is it impossible to in some way support both semantics? So that you give a certain flag to cp for same-inode-copying, and another flag for different-inode-copying? And the user can chose depending on the task it is intended for and if the applications are better compatible with one of the alternatives?


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