Re: glib outstanding stuff

[Trog <trog gtk org>]

On 05-Oct-2000 Joel Becker wrote:

> 
>> Wouldn't a readline() type interface (in GIOChannel) and an mmap()
>> based interface cover a much larger set of requirements?
> 
>       readline() fails utterly on a file that isn't line oriented.

(in the same way the proposed function fails for large files?)


> mmap() changes the file contents.

It *can*. But it can also be read only.

-tony


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