I think you're confused as to what a memory-mapped file is. A memory-mapped file is a file whose contents you can access as if it was memory (i.e. by using pointers). I think what you're looking for is a ramdrive. A ramdrive is a device driver that presents a section of memory as if it were a drive. There is not a supported ramdrive driver available for Win2K or XP, AFAIK. There is however the source code for a not-supported, not-for-production-use ramdrive device driver available in the DDK.
- Jim -----Original Message----- From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Syed.Alam Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DOTNET] OT: Replacing standard file with memory mapped file Hi Is there anyway that i can intercept CreateFile() for some standard disk file, to force it to open a memory mapped file provided by me? I want to do that in order to increase performance. I have no control on the third party software opening a disk file, but i know that file. thanks You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
