I was wondering how memory mapping a file and Rust's aliasing rules for references work together, i.e. if I create a read-only memory mapping of some file and then go ahead use the resulting slice to parse that file, can something bad happen if another process changes this file on disk and hence the…

How unsafe is mmap?

BurntSushi August 17, 2018, 4:34pm 6

cc @RalfJung You might be interested in this conversation. Or at least, I know I would be interested in your opinion.

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