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Subjectmmap() on block devices? (Was: Re: documentation on writing a filesystem ?)
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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