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Diffstat (limited to 'include/osl')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/osl/file.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/osl/file.h b/include/osl/file.h index 73349572063c..01b6288ea0be 100644 --- a/include/osl/file.h +++ b/include/osl/file.h @@ -766,9 +766,8 @@ SAL_DLLPUBLIC oslFileError SAL_CALL osl_getFileSize( /** Map a shared file into memory. - Don't know what the "shared" is supposed to mean there? Also, - obviously this API can be used to map *part* of a file into - memory, and different parts can be mapped separately even. + Files can be mapped into memory to allow multiple processes to use + this memory-mapped file to share data. On Android, if the Handle refers to a file that is actually inside the app package (.apk zip archive), no new mapping is created, @@ -790,8 +789,6 @@ SAL_DLLPUBLIC oslFileError SAL_CALL osl_mapFile ( /** Unmap a shared file from memory. - Ditto here, why do we need to mention "shared"? - This function just won't work on Android in general where for (uncompressed) files inside the .apk, per SDK conventions in the /assets folder, osl_mapFile() returns a pointer to the file inside |