Re: [DotGNU]Patch 875 Updates System.IO.File Exception throwing to be more verbose

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Sunday 22 December 2002 03:53 am, Aditya P. Bansod wrote:

> I know Win32 has a CopyFile API command, and I had thought of using mmap
> under Unix. Perhaps I'll look into those this weekend.

Just use a simple read buffer/write buffer implementation.  If you get too 
fancy, it will be harder to debug later.  "Make it work, and then make it 
work better".  Speed isn't terribly important for this API, as it is used 
very rarely.  Also, mmap can be problematic on some platforms.

Cheers,

Rhys.