[gdal-dev] Memory mapped VSILFILE ?

[Andrew C Aitchison]

Drivers work with VSILFILE objects.
Sometimes these are real files but as I understand it,
sometimes these are actually blocks of memory behind a file interface.

Is the reverse possible, ie can I mmap a VSILFILE and then
read it as if it were a block of memory ?
This would be for read-only drivers.

There will inevitably be endian issues, but I have come across
several file formats that look to me to be designed to be read
this way, especially the header structures.

Thanks,

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk