On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:13 -0600, Hans Petter Jansson wrote:

> I tend to favor read() on user data:
> 
> - For robustness: An mmap() map can become invalid if the file is
> truncated, crashing the process.

Furthermore, read() handles errors (like say a disk i/o error) much more
gracefully.

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