MappedFile.this

Maps a file into memory. On UNIX, this is using the mmap() function.

If writable is true, the mapped buffer may be modified, otherwise it is an error to modify the mapped buffer. Modifications to the buffer are not visible to other processes mapping the same file, and are not written back to the file.

Note that modifications of the underlying file might affect the contents of the #GMappedFile. Therefore, mapping should only be used if the file will not be modified, or if all modifications of the file are done atomically (e.g. using glib.global.fileSetContents).

If filename is the name of an empty, regular file, the function will successfully return an empty #GMappedFile. In other cases of size 0 (e.g. device files such as /dev/null), error will be set to the #GFileError value G_FILE_ERROR_INVAL.

class MappedFile
this
(
string filename
,)

Parameters

filename string

The path of the file to load, in the GLib filename encoding

writable bool

whether the mapping should be writable

Return Value

a newly allocated #GMappedFile which must be unref'd with glib.mapped_file.MappedFile.unref, or null if the mapping failed.