Is it possible to use mmap in C for reading textfiles ? I know its possible with binary files. But when I try to read an entire textfile I seem to be having some problems.
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Is it possible to use mmap in C for reading textfiles ? I know its possible with binary files. But when I try to read an entire textfile I seem to be having some problems.
Yes, that works of course – “text files” are just a subset of “binary files” anyway.
However, don’t expect a trailing
\0so you cannot use any string functions since they require NUL-terminated strings.