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Author yotam
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I am not sure I am following all arguments.
But a major motivation for having an offset parameter,
is to allow for mapping a segment of a huge file.
A file could have a size which is too large for memory mapping.
But one may need to map just a 'small' segment 
of a well known offset address.

By the way, my experience in this case was in Linux only.
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