Re:My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39...
by laichzeit0 on Friday September 12, 2014 @06:46AM
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As others have commented, it's not necessary.
If you wrote cp in such a way that it's a reusable C library that other programs might use, then I can understand why they do this. It still doesn't make much sense for the command-line version to call this. Of course, it might run on some weird platform where the OS doesn't reclaim the memory of a process on exit(?).
If you wrote cp in such a way that it's a reusable C library that other programs might use, then I can understand why they do this. It still doesn't make much sense for the command-line version to call this. Of course, it might run on some weird platform where the OS doesn't reclaim the memory of a process on exit(?).