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<<On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:24:43 -0700, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> If anyone would like to tackle this, I have one concrete suggestion:
> start with passthrough (copy) mode.  If I understand it correctly,
> it can be implemented quite simply by forking:

Nobody implements it that way, because That Would Be Slow
(particularly in `-l' mode).

-GAWollman