Posted by Cousin Stanley on 12/03/05 17:37

> The behavior of readfile() is platform dependent.
>
> On operation systems that supports memory-mapped files
> ( e.g. Win32 ), the entire file is mapped into
> the process's memory space and sent in one chunk
> ( hence the complaints that the function reads in
> the whole file ).
>
> On operation systems that do not support memory-mapped files,
> the function dispatch the data in 8K chunks.

Chung Leong ....

Thanks for the reply ....

The commercial hosting service that I'm now dealing with
is running FreeBSD and I use Debian Linux on my local
test machine ....

However, I don't know about the memory-mapped file behavior
on either of these systems ....

I currently don't have to deal with
any WinXX servers ....


--
Stanley C. Kitching
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona


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