About mmap

About mmap

[Sebastien Morand]

I'm implementing a cache for a database file system. Using mmap I
would like to know how mmap works.

For instance if my file is open in read/write and I'm mapping in
read/write but I use only the block in write, is the kernel going to
read on the disk?

Here is a sample code:
int h = open(file, O_RDWR | O_SYNC);
void * memory =
  mmap(0, pageSize, PROT_WRITE | PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, handle, 0);

I'm actually using the same code to get read or write block, so if I'm
using the block in write only I would like to know if this code is
correct or if I'd better change the flags according to writing or
reading access.

Sincerely,
Sebastien Morand.

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please.