* Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
<big_snip /> I don't know much of native plan9 (only using plan9port), but IMHO an full mmap() is a really nice thing. It can make a lot things easier if you just map the whole file into the process' memory and let the kernel handle the actual IO. Some time ago I hacked up a little XML-based database (just to show myself that it needn't to be that ugly slow as Xindice ;-)), and being able to conveniently work with pointers instead of ugly seek() made really fun ;-P cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
