Re: Memory-mapped files

[Ludovic Courtès]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:41:47PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> They should fall back to normal read/write if mmap fails.

Gcc does not actually fall back to normal read/write.  Should we ask them to
fix that?

> Why can't you use libpager?

This is a netfs-based filesystem (tarfs).  So far, I've never felt like
needing libpager and that's why I'm not using it currently (however, you might
be able to find good reasons/ways to use it for this particular filesystem?).

Thanks,
Ludovic.