Re: [boost] IOStreams formal review start (memory-mapped files)

From: Jonathan Graehl (jonathan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-31 21:36:34

Generally: four stars, two thumbs up, and a partridge in a pear tree.

I'm interested in directly using the Windows/POSIX mmap portability 
wrapper; might we promote it out of the detail namespace?  That is, I 
may want to use mmap to perform some explicit memory swapping/caching. 

It looks like I could first create a file of the desired size, then 
acquire a mapped_file_resource - but then I don't get access to the 
actual pointer to memory (it's hidden in the private _pimpl).  This is 
fine; what I really want is a portability wrapper for mmap :)

Thanks,
Jonathan