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Re: [patch] Avoid the use of mmap as buffer for stdio streams
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan at linux dot intel dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:00:06 -0800
- Subject: Re: [patch] Avoid the use of mmap as buffer for stdio streams
- References: <4566DE80.7050207@linux.intel.com>
What code is _really_ affected by this? We are using mmap for a number
of reasons, one of which is that it reduces fragmentation on the heap.
It works well and so far I don't see any reason to change this. I've
not seen programs which constantly and with high frequency fclose() files.
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