Re: Configure.help speedup(no 'sed', builds byte index)

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:48:26 -0600


Hi Adam,

> Also, the program not only reads in Documentation/Configure.help, but
> any separate files that happen to be in Documentation/config/.

That's cool.

> My main concern is how mmap will work on other platforms. The index file
> is a simple format: "<varname> <helpfile> <start> <end>", with everything
> stored as a string. Does anyone see anyone problems with this approach?

scripts/mkdep.c has used mmap for a long time, so mmap(2) is already
required to build linux. No worries there.

Regards,

Michael Chastain
<mailto:mec@shout.net>
"love without fear"