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Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:44:03 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: How does mmap () relate to the binary / text mode flag of open ()
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:37:57PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>Does the O_BINARY / O_TEXT flag change the behaviour of mmap () ? I
>red some mmap() manpages but none of them give a clear explanation :(
>It looks like mmap () on Cygwin doesn't care about it and just maps
>the file as it is on the disk. Can anyone confirm this ?

I don't know what other behavior you'd expect.  How could mmap possibly
do anything other than provide the information exactly as it exists on
disk?

cgf

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