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Re: Another alternative string representation proposal


From: Keisuke Nishida
Subject: Re: Another alternative string representation proposal
Date: 25 Sep 2000 20:23:55 -0400
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address@hidden (Carl R. Witty) writes:

> > If you modify mmap'ed memory, it is copied anyway, isn't it?  And we'd
> > like to use shared mapping rather than private mapping, right?  I think
> > mmap'ed memory should be read-only.
> 
> You can use mmap'ed memory for inter-process communication, or for
> read-write access to a file (a database, say).  In those cases you
> want a shared writable mapping.

But I don't think anyone wants to use shared writable memory for strings.
So, as you say, probably one should define a special type if one want to
use mmap for such a purpose.



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