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On 2023-01-02 00:36, Jesper Quorning wrote:
> 
> - Zero copy access to a (read-only) file.

So far as I know, any access to a file involves copying information from the 
external medium into memory, so this may be impossible.

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Jeff Carter
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Alan Perlis
"Verbing weirds language."
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