From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Titus <jason.titus@av.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: mmap64?
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:21:40 -0300 (BRST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004241520560.5572-100000@duckman.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000424190754.B1566@redhat.com>
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 06:30:35PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > Eurhmm, exactly where in the address space of your process are
> > you going to map this file?
>
> mmap64() is defined to allow you to map arbitrary regions of
> large files into your address space. You don't have to map the
> whole file.
<nitpick>
To be more precise, you _can't_ map the whole file,
which seemed to be what the original poster was asking
for...
</nitpick>
cheers,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-24 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-04-22 19:35 mmap64? Jason Titus
2000-04-22 21:30 ` mmap64? Rik van Riel
2000-04-23 1:37 ` mmap64? Jason Titus
2000-04-23 8:11 ` mmap64? Christoph Rohland
2000-04-24 18:08 ` mmap64? Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-24 18:07 ` mmap64? Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-24 18:21 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2000-04-23 1:24 ` mmap64? Eric W. Biederman
2000-04-23 1:52 ` mmap64? Jason Titus
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