Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:37:31 +0100 (MET) | From | Max <> | Subject | mmap() on block devices? (Was: Re: documentation on writing a filesystem ?) |
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On 9 Feb 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>Perhaps a look at my "rawfs" filesystem would help. It's a very simple >virtual filesystem that shows all partitions on a disk as big files >(so you can mmap() partitions, useful for software like INN+CNFS). > >ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/kernel/v2.[02]/rawfs-0.X.tar.gz > >Mike.
That's a thing I miss in Linux: why isn't allowed to mmap() block devices? Just because noone wrote the code for it yet?
Massimiliano Ghilardi
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