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Thanks for the insight on the global write lock. I've searched and searched and wasn't able to find anything on why they have the global lock. Out of curiosity

Thanks for the insight on the global write lock. I've searched and searched and wasn't able to find anything on why they have the global lock. Out of curiosity, is there a simple way to explain why someone would mmap instead of just reading files directly (I've never done any programming with mmap, so I'm a bit ignorant of its use cases)?

stingraycharles 14y ago
This SO entry seems to answer your question fairly well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/258091/when-should-i-use-mmap-for-file-access http://stackoverflow.com/questions/258091/when-should-i-use-...