> With mmap, you map a file into process memory and read and write to it as if it were memory. This could be an implimentation difference, but I've always acce

> With mmap, you map a file into process memory and read and write to it as if it were memory. This could be an implimentation difference, but I've always accessed mmapped files as files, but I've only ever used it on *BSD and Solaris and it was very straightforward and easy.