Top "Mmap" questions

mmap is a POSIX-compliant Unix system call that maps files or devices into memory.

Python - Download File Using Requests, Directly to Memory

The goal is to download a file from the internet, and create from it a file object, or a file …

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How to read lines from a mmapped file?

Is seems that the mmap interface only supports readline(). If I try to iterate over the object I get character …

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What is the purpose of MAP_ANONYMOUS flag in mmap system call?

From the man page, MAP_ANONYMOUS The mapping is not backed by any file; its contents are initialized to zero. …

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How to use mmap to allocate a memory in heap?

Just the question stated, how can I use mmap() to allocate a memory in heap? This is my only option …

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Invalid argument for read-write mmap?

I'm getting -EINVAL for some reason, and it's not clear to me why. Here's where I open and attempt to …

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mmap( ) vs read( )

I'm writing a bulk ID3 tag editor in C. ID3 tags are usually at the beginning of an mp3 encoded …

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How to read and write with mmap() on a Linux system

I need to make some stream in and out classes using mmap() in Linux. To do so I tried to …

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JVM cant map reserved memory when running in Docker container

I cant seem to run java at all in a Docker container on my server. Even when issuing java -version, …

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Will malloc implementations return free-ed memory back to the system?

I have a long-living application with frequent memory allocation-deallocation. Will any malloc implementation return freed memory back to the system? …

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How to use /dev/kmem?

Updated my post... I got below program. It operates on /dev/kmem and /dev/mem. I think I can learn …

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