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- /*
- * Copyright (c) 1991 Carnegie Mellon University
- * All Rights Reserved.
- *
- * Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its
- * documentation is hereby granted, provided that both the copyright
- * notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the
- * software, derivative works or modified versions, and any portions
- * thereof, and that both notices appear in supporting documentation.
- *
- * CARNEGIE MELLON ALLOWS FREE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IN ITS "AS IS"
- * CONDITION. CARNEGIE MELLON DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND FOR
- * ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
- *
- * Carnegie Mellon requests users of this software to return to
- *
- * Software Distribution Coordinator or Software.Distribution@CS.CMU.EDU
- * School of Computer Science
- * Carnegie Mellon University
- * Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
- *
- * any improvements or extensions that they make and grant Carnegie the rights
- * to redistribute these changes.
- */
- /* filecopy -- copy a file from here to there
- *
- * Usage: i = filecopy (here,there);
- * int i, here, there;
- *
- * Filecopy performs a fast copy of the file "here" to the
- * file "there". Here and there are both file descriptors of
- * open files; here is open for input, and there for output.
- * Filecopy returns 0 if all is OK; -1 on error.
- *
- * I have performed some tests for possible improvements to filecopy.
- * Using a buffer size of 10240 provides about a 1.5 times speedup
- * over 512 for a file of about 200,000 bytes. Of course, other
- * buffer sized should also work; this is a rather arbitrary choice.
- * I have also tried inserting special startup code to attempt
- * to align either the input or the output file to lie on a
- * physical (512-byte) block boundary prior to the big loop,
- * but this presents only a small (about 5% speedup, so I've
- * canned that code. The simple thing seems to be good enough.
- *
- * HISTORY
- * 20-Nov-79 Steven Shafer (sas) at Carnegie-Mellon University
- * Rewritten for VAX; same as "filcopy" on PDP-11. Bigger buffer
- * size (20 physical blocks) seems to be a big win; aligning things
- * on block boundaries seems to be a negligible improvement at
- * considerable cost in complexity.
- *
- */
-
- #define BUFFERSIZE 10240
-
- int filecopy (here,there)
- int here,there;
- {
- register int kount;
- char buffer[BUFFERSIZE];
- kount = 0;
- while (kount == 0 && (kount=read(here,buffer,BUFFERSIZE)) > 0)
- kount -= write (there,buffer,kount);
- return (kount ? -1 : 0);
- }
-