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// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
// This package is a lightly modified version of the mmap code
// in github.com/google/codesearch/index.
// The mmap package provides an abstraction for memory mapping files
// on different platforms.
package mmap
import (
"os"
)
// The backing file is never closed, so Data
// remains valid for the lifetime of the process.
type Data struct {
// TODO(pjw): might be better to define versions of Data
// for the 3 specializations
f *os.File
Data []byte
// Some windows magic
Windows interface{}
}
// Mmap maps the given file into memory.
// When remapping a file, pass the most recently returned Data.
func Mmap(f *os.File) (*Data, error) {
return mmapFile(f)
}
// Munmap unmaps the given file from memory.
func Munmap(d *Data) error {
return munmapFile(d)
}