Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 19:42:49 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendfile.2 (was Re: cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <199811060342.TAA11021@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Nov 1998 18:56:46 PST." <199811060256.SAA00345@apollo.backplane.com>
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> Another thing that would be useful now that mmap() works reliably > would be to actually use it in the stdio library for read operations > on plain files: [f]getc(), fgets(), and fread(). The only difficulty > here is in how to deal with file truncation issues, since accessing > mmap'd pages beyond the file's size will segfault. For what its worth, the SFIO library from AT&T already supports this. I don't remember what copyright it is released under though. Koshy <jkoshy@freebsd.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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