Re: Single-threading servers and select()

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

David Given wrote:
> There's no reason why you can't have a persistant
> pointer to a file; dereference the pointer and the appropriate file is 
> opened and a block read. This would trivialise the bulk of most 
> program's file I/O; MULTICS did it years ago; but you can't do it on a 
> Unix because the underlying design doesn't let you do that sort of 
> thing. Sigh.

That sounds a lot like mmap().  Isn't it?

--Adam
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