Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 21/28] libxl: ocaml: add wrappers for poll

[David Scott <dave.scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/04/13 14:43, Ian Campbell wrote:
> (aside: I'd really love it if tools/ocaml/libs/mmap could find a non-Xen
> home too ;-))
I think I can arrange that.

In the mirage code we've settled on using OCaml 'bigarrays' [1] 
(wrappers around C arrays) to pass around buffers, represent memory 
pages etc. The OCaml standard library has the ability to mmap() stuff 
and return a bigarray but there was an unfortunate bug where it assumed 
the thing being mmap()ed also supported lseek() [2]. The bug was fixed 
in OCaml 4.00.0 so if we're happy to depend on that then we're ready to 
roll.
Cheers,
Dave

[1] http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Bigarray.html
[2] http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=5543

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