Jeff Garzik wrote:
> When dealing with files it is common to mmap all of a file, or up to XXX
> bytes of a file. Is there any way to reduce the number of syscalls for
> this operation from 3 to 1?
>
> fd = open(...);
> stat(...); /* get size for mmap */
> addr = mmap(...);
In principle it's possible to write a device driver, which provides one
ioctl: "do the following sequence of syscalls".
-- Jamie
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