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From: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy>
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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
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