#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Sys::Mmap; use constant SEGMENT_SIZE => 256; use constant MAX_SEGMENTS => 8192/SEGMENT_SIZE; my $file = shift; my $mmap; if (! -f $file) { die "'$file' is not a regular file\n"; } open(F, "+< $file") or die "Couldn't open '$file': $!\n"; mmap($mmap, 0, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, F) or die "mmap error: $!\n"; my $segment = 0; while (<>) { if (length > (SEGMENT_SIZE-1)) { warn "Line too long\n"; next; } $segment = ($segment + 1 ) % MAX_SEGMENTS; substr($mmap,1+SEGMENT_SIZE*$segment,1)=chr(length); substr($mmap,2+SEGMENT_SIZE*$segment,length)=$_; substr($mmap,0,1)=chr($segment); }