joyent/node — Issue #2693: feature request: add mmap support
Author: elus
Created: 2012-02-04 10:13:29+00:00
State: open

I would really like to have mmap support in Node. I know - there are 3rd party modules for that, but I would rather see one in in Node's stdlib. There are many reasons for that (people don't trust 3rd party modules, sometimes there is a problem with deploying native extensions...). Node is already exposing most of the system calls so I really don't see a reason why shouldn't it expose mmap syscall in form of some nice JS API.

I understand that this feature request has quite low priority now (compared to important stuff like Domains support) but I would really like to see this feature at some point.