Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: mremap() proposal (was Re: malloc and joe) | From | Matti E Aarnio <> | Date | Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:56:32 +0200 (EET) |
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... > for the initial mapping, and then when the process notices that the file > has grown (or shrunk), it does a > > mremap(addr, old_size, st.st_size) > > to be able to read the new pages. A very logical interface, in fact.
Don't forget that mmap() has a ``start offset within the file'', that is, we might not want to care about first 5 GB of some file, and want to skip it with that offset...
> Linus
/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>
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