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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Why GNU cp is flakey under Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.204053.24890@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 20:40:53 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.060338.24805@ennews.eas.asu.edu> <1992Aug12.063534.4178@muddcs.claremont.edu> <JRS.92Aug12190300@lepton.world.std.com> <1992Aug13.132338.8532@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- In article <1992Aug13.132338.8532@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
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- | Yes, but GNU cp looks /only/ at the st_blocks field, and seems to ignore
- | st_blksize altogether, assuming it's a constant (usually 512). Or
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- I have a vague recollection of du doing the same thing, I'll have to
- check that this weekend.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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