>>> the API is named something different (CreateFileMapping/MapViewOfFile=
>>> for mmap and UnMapViewOfFile/CloseHandle for munmap according to a qu= ick >>> perusal of MSDN) >> Gah, why can't they just implement basic posix syscalls? Life would ge= t so >> much easier for everyone. I'm starting to understand now why companies= who >> have Windows clients don't want to port it to Linux, it's way more wor= k >> then >> it logically should be. At least it's #ifdef WIN32 ... #else ... #endi= f >> and not 400 different code chunks. > Why not 'simulate' these functions in windows with some module that loo= ks > like this one: > http://chuck.netbsd.sk/source/xref/gstreamer-0.8.7/win32/mman.c That's similar to what we'll probably end up doing. It's still annoying t= hey can't just implement the basic POSIX syscalls... Thanks for the pointer. --=20 Phil Dibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source software and tech docs Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Never write it in C if you can do it in 'awk'; Never do it in 'awk' if 'sed' can handle it; Never use 'sed' when 'tr' can do the job; Never invoke 'tr' when 'cat' is sufficient; Avoid using 'cat' whenever possible" -- Taylor's Laws of Programming
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