[patch] Avoid the use of mmap as buffer for stdio streams

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Mon Nov 27 22:00:00 GMT 2006


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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