Windows® via C/C++, Fifth Edition

Chapter 17. Memory-Mapped Files

In this chapter:

Memory-Mapped Executables and DLLs

Memory-Mapped Data Files

Using Memory-Mapped Files

Processing a Big File Using Memory-Mapped Files

Memory-Mapped Files and Coherence

Specifying the Base Address of a Memory-Mapped File

Implementation Details of Memory-Mapped Files

Using Memory-Mapped Files to Share Data Among Processes

Memory-Mapped Files Backed by the Paging File

Sparsely Committed Memory-Mapped Files

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