Implementing file reading in C/Python

[Steve Holden]

sturlamolden wrote:
> On Jan 12, 1:52 pm, Sion Arrowsmith <si... at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> And today's moral is: try it before posting. Yeah, I can map a 2GB
>> file no problem, complete with associated 2GB+ allocated VM. The
>> addressing is clearly not working how I was expecting it too.
> 
> The virtual memory space of a 32 bit process is 4 GB.
> 
I believe, though, that in some environments 2GB of that is mapped onto
the operating system, to allow system calls to access OS memory
structures without any VM remapping being required - see

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx.

Things have, however, improved if we are to believe what we read in

  http://www.tenouk.com/WinVirtualAddressSpace.html

The very idea of mapping part of a process's virtual address space onto
an area in which "low-level system code resides, so writing to this
region may corrupt the system, with potentially catastrophic
consequences" seems to be asking for trouble to me. It's surprising
things used to don't go wrong with Windows all the time, really. Oh,
wait a minute, they did, didn't they? Still do for that matter ...

getting-sicker-of-vista-by-the-minute-ly yr's  - steve
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