Subject: Re: Proposed new syscalls: pread and pwrite
To: Eduardo E. Horvath eeh@btr.com <eeh@btr.btr.com>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@anarres.mame.mu.oz.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/06/1995 10:24:26 
> My question is: how is this better than mmapping the file and accessing 
> it directly?

Pardon me for dragging up an old thread, but: "It works with the
buffercache, for one thing."

--
Dan.