How do I call mmap() in Haskell?

[David Roundy]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:16:31AM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I've been wondering how to do mmap() in Haskell since I don't know how
> to get things to interact with the runtime system etc.
> 
> Actually, similar questions apply to asynchronous IO.
> 
> The foreign function interface is nice and all, but modelling the
> result with types and interoperating with the runtime system is the
> real question here.

You could take a look at FastPackedString.hs in darcs, which calls mmap to
read strings, and uses ForeignPtrs to hold their data, so you don't have to
copy the memory over.
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David Roundy
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