Re: Explanations on MappedFile

[David Sugar]

Generally I had been assuming people would use MappedFile to construct more 
complete objects that manage mapped memory in specific ways, rather than use 
MappedFile itself as a generic mapped file access class.

On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:22, Damien Vincent wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> I'd like to know why all types (Mapping, Access, ...) are in the protected
> section of the class "File". With this design, you can't make a MappedFile
> object since in the constructor of this class, you need to specify an
> access mode (-> MappedFile (const char *fname, Access mode) ). So, the only
> way to create a mapped file is to make a class which derives from
> MappedFile. With the version 1.6.4 of the library, you can make an instance
> of the MappedFile class.
>
>   Thanks,
>
> Damien
>
>
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