reading binary data in C

[Charles Krasic]

I'm writing a program which needs to read a chunk of data
directly into memory and I'm having trouble deciding what is the
_best_ way to do it.  I've been considering three possibilities:

	1)  mmap the chunk of the file into memory with 
	    flags set to MAP_PRIVATE
	2)  malloc a chunk of memory and use either
	    i) fread
	    or ii) fgetc

Any of these should work (I think...) but I would like to know
which is best.  


    
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