Re: Hackish file -> string trick

From: Martin Harvey (Demon Account) (martin_at__nospam_pergolesi.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/22/03

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    On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:56:50 +0100, "Maarten Wiltink"
    <maarten@kittensandcats.net> wrote:

    >That's probably a bit too idealised for practical purposes. Only today,
    >I happened to read the Hurd FAQ and it said in so many words that all
    >mounted filesystems are _completely_ mapped into memory. That is perhaps
    >the other extreme.

    Surely instead of being the other extreme, it's actually the same
    thing? If all file data is mapped into memory, then instead of having
    a separatye file cache, you simply threat *all* file and directory
    operations as the act of creating a correspondence between memory &
    disk, which is the same thing as virtual memory - the only difference
    with virtual memory is the association thus created is constrained to
    map to the pagefile.

    Anyway, what is this Hurd FAQ?

    MH.

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