Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!tsdiag!moria!dcm
From: dcm@moria.UUCP (David C. Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: uses of mmap
Message-ID: <352@moria.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 90 04:52:00 GMT
References: <1990Sep4.123135.10479@mips2.cr.bull.com>
Organization: The Black Chasm
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In Jerome Freedman writes:
:  I have been looking at mmap [...]
: Now , If I want to mmap a file it looks as though I have to
: open the device on which the file resides to get the fd 
: mentioned in the man pages and somehow get the offset of
: the file I want to map - is this a correct interpretation

It's real close.  But you open the *file* you want to map, not
the device it resides on.

David