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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:48:31 +1000
From:      "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, David Xu <bsddiy@21cn.com>
Subject:   Re: vm balance
Message-ID:  <20010419104831.A8598@gurney.reilly.home>
In-Reply-To: <3ADDCE50.132B9F5D@elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:26:40AM -0700
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010418111539.2462G-100000@fledge.watson.org> <3ADDCE50.132B9F5D@elischer.org>

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On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:26:40AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Robert Watson wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> > As I indicated in my follow-up mail, the statement about seeking was
> > incorrect, that is a property of the open file structure; I believe the
> > remainder still holds true. When was the last time you tried mmap'ing or
> > seeking on the socket?  A socket represents a buffered data stream which
> > does not allow arbitrary read/write operations at arbitrary offsets.
> 
> Actually there have been times when I did want to mmap a datastream..
> I think a datastream mapped into a user buffer-space is one of the 
> possible 0-copy methods people sometimes mention.

Mmapped data streams: audio IO.

There are probably others.

-- 
Andrew

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