Subject: Re: RAW access to files
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/12/2001 16:09:14
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:34:51AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> I've always thought that mmap of raw disk devices was a nice solution to
> this problem.  It saves system-call overhead as well as the memory-to-memory
> copy, just so long as you don't need more than 32 bits worth of data.

... at a time.

... or have an Sparc64 (AXP, HP-PA are RISCed, and are the hardware ia64 and
amd64 really available soon?)

Regards,
	-is

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