Re: Integrating support for GNOME VFS into glibc

[Jan Kratochvil <lace jankratochvil net>]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 02:06:15 +0100, Chipzz wrote:
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> One problem (which admittedly can be addressed) would be seeking. You
> would need to keep the whole file in-memory, which may get quite large

In some cases it is not acceptable approach.

> (how do you seek on dynamically generated files by http, think slashdot
> for example, which may have changed if you re-read the file). mmap'ing
> would also be a problem for example.

New GnomeVFS "http" finally supports seeking by "Content-Range" HTTP header.
Dynamically generated files generate bogus partial read results - exactly like
in the case of asynchronously rewritten local POSIX filesystem files.


Regards,
Lace