Re: rate limit in copy.c

[maurizio panniello]

Hi Bob, thanks for your answer,

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Yes, my fault, sorry. 

> 


> Are you familiar with rsync?  It is installed by
> default on most systems.
> 
>   http://rsync.samba.org
> 
> Check out the --bwlimit option.
> 
>   rsync --help
> 
>        --bwlimit=KBPS          limit I/O bandwidth;
> KBytes per second

Yes i know rsync, but i didn't know that it can make
this and i didn't think to search in the manual of
this utility. Thanks a lot.

> 
> The core utilities such as cp, mv, rm, are required
> utilities on /bin
> on all systems.  Therefore extra care needs to be
> taken that they
> don't become too overgrown.  It reduces their
> ability to be useful on
> a wide range of platforms.  Already there are other
> small programs
> such as busybox which implies that the core
> utilities are too bloated
> already.  And if this functionality were added to cp
> it would imply
> that other commands such as mv also needed the same
> functionality
> added to them as well multiplying the problem.

Yes, i'm agree and i see that rsync is better place to
put this utility, the pity is that not so many people
think in rsync for this kind of facilities, because i
asked to a lot of people before make the patch an
nobody speak me about rsync. 

> 
> I would prefer not to see this type of functionality
> added to the
> utils.  Especially since the same type of
> functionality already exists
> in the 'rsync' command.  The 'rsync' command
> provides a wide range of
> additional functionality such as this over the 'cp'
> command.  The two
> commands compliment each other very nicely.

Yes i'm ansious to read the manual carefully now ;)

> 
> Bob
> 
> 

Thanks a lot
Maurizio

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