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Re: bsearch utility
From: |
James Youngman |
Subject: |
Re: bsearch utility |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:48:10 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:38:16PM -0700, Sorav Bansal wrote:
> look(1) mmaps() the entire file to memory and is not useful for large
> files (>2GB). In its current form, it operates only on the first 2GB of
> the file. For larger files, mmap() will fail. Please correct me, if I am
> wrong.
I think you're right. That implementation probably also comes unstuck
on systems where the type of the difference between pointers (no C
standard to hand, sorry) is narrower than off_t.
> IMHO, it will be useful to have an equivalent of look/bsearch in coreutils.
I agree.
- Re: bsearch utility, (continued)
- Re: bsearch utility, Sorav Bansal, 2005/07/21
- Re: bsearch utility, Paul Eggert, 2005/07/21
- Re: bsearch utility, Sorav Bansal, 2005/07/22
- Re: bsearch utility, Paul Eggert, 2005/07/23
- Re: bsearch utility, Sorav Bansal, 2005/07/26
Re: bsearch utility, Bob Proulx, 2005/07/14
Re: bsearch utility, Sorav Bansal, 2005/07/14
- Re: bsearch utility,
James Youngman <=