From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2000-12-21T02:38:45+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7776] Re: String as IO and/or File object?

>>>>> "Y" == Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@zetabits.com> writes:

Y> |mf = open("bigimage", "r").to_mmap("r")
Y> |mf.scan(/.../)...

Y> Pretty interesting.  I wish to see the extension which implements this.
Y> I prefer just 'mmap' over 'to_mmap' though.

 It's not better to have String.mmap("path", "mode") ?

 open("path", ...) use fopen() or fdopen() (no ?) and this can be a problem
 with mmap (or do I say something totally stupid)


Guy Decoux