Re: glib outstanding stuff

[Shawn T Amundson <amundson eventloop com>]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:38:30AM +0200, Jonas Bulow wrote:
> Joel Becker wrote:
> > 
> >         readline() fails utterly on a file that isn't line oriented.
> > mmap() changes the file contents.
> >         Say I have a non-huge data file.  I want to do operations on the
> > data and get a munged result.  I don't want to affect the actual file
> > contents, so mmap() is out.  
> 
> How about using MAP_PRIVATE and/or PROT_READ in the mmap call? Is that
> not portable?

mmap() doesn't exist on BeOS, and there really is no equivalent.  So no,
it's not portable.

-Shawn

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