In principle this seems to work. Here's an example:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Sys::Mmap;

my $string;

open my $fh, '<', '/usr/share/dict/words' or die $!;

Sys::Mmap::mmap( $string, 0, MAP_SHARED, PROT_READ, $fh );

while( $string =~ m/^(wal.*)$/mg ) {
  print $1, "\n";
}

Sys::Mmap::munmap( $string ) or die "munmap: $!";
close $fh;

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On my system I get a dump of everything in the dict/words file starting with 'wal'. However, I end up getting the following error message when munmap is called:

variable is not a string at ./mytest.pl line 17.

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The XS code testing whether the variable being unmapped is a string is this:

if(SvTYPE(var) != SVt_PV) {
            croak("variable is not a string");
            return;
        }

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...which doesn't strike me as wrong. Must be something in the XS for 'mmap' that is not happening properly.


Dave

In reply to Re^4: Possible to have regexes act on file directly (not in memory) by davido
in thread Possible to have regexes act on file directly (not in memory) by Nocturnus

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