Newbie Question - File Mapping.

[<sasank kuntimaddi wipro com>]

Hi,

 

I have an application that uses the following Windows APIs.

 

LPVOID WINAPI MapViewOfFile(
  __in  HANDLE hFileMappingObject,
  __in  DWORD dwDesiredAccess,
  __in  DWORD dwFileOffsetHigh,
  __in  DWORD dwFileOffsetLow,
  __in  SIZE_T dwNumberOfBytesToMap
);

 

HANDLE CreateFileMapping(
  HANDLE hFile,
  LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpFileMappingAttributes,
  DWORD flProtect,
  DWORD dwMaximumSizeHigh,
  DWORD dwMaximumSizeLow,
  LPCTSTR lpName
);

 

I need to reprogram this application to run on Linux. Is mmap function a good replacement for the above two API calls. If not please suggest an alternative method.

 

Thanks and Regards

Sasank K