add .sync() to flush writes to disk

add writable_file::sync() and resizable_file::sync() with optional
offset and size arguments

drive-by fix for likely outdated NtQuerySection definition

removed unused ntifs() dll module singleton

renamed SectionPageProtection that used to shadow a createSection()
parameter

Author: pknowles

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2024 Pyarelal Knowles, MIT License
+# Copyright (c) 2024-2025 Pyarelal Knowles, MIT License
 
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.20)
 

README.md

@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 # decodeless_mappedfile
 
-[`decodeless`](https://github.com/decodeless) (previously no-decode) is a
-collection of utility libraries for conveniently reading and writing files via
-memory mapping. Components can be used individually or combined.
+[`decodeless`](https://github.com/decodeless) is a collection of utility
+libraries for conveniently reading and writing files via memory mapping.
+Components can be used individually or combined.
 
-`decodeless_mappedfile` is a small cross platform file mapping abstraction that
-supports reserving virtual address space and growing a file mapping into it for
-an exciting new way to write binary files. Also includes convenient read-only
-and writable file mapping objects.
+`decodeless_mappedfile` is a small cross platform file mapping abstraction. It
+provides simple objects to read and write to existing files. However, the more
+interesting feature is a resizable mapped file. It works by reserving some
+virtual address space and growing a file mapping into it for a really convenient
+and fast way to write binary files.
 
 [decodeless_writer](https://github.com/decodeless/writer) conbines this and
 [decodeless_allocator](https://github.com/decodeless/allocator) to conveniently
@@ -33,16 +34,16 @@ write complex data structures directly as binary data.
 
 ## Code Example
 
-```
+```cpp
 // Memory map a read-only file
 decodeless::file mapped(filename);
 const int* numbers = reinterpret_cast<const int*>(mapped.data());
 ...
 ```
 
-```
+```cpp
 // Create a file
-size_t maxSize = 4096;
+size_t maxSize = 1 << 30;  // reserved virtual address; can be huge
 decodeless::resizable_file file(filename, maxSize);
 EXPECT_EQ(file.size(), 0);
 EXPECT_EQ(file.data(), nullptr);
@@ -58,6 +59,35 @@ EXPECT_EQ(numbers[9], 9);
 numbers[99] = 99;
 ```
 
+## Building
+
+This is a header-only C++20 library with CMake integration. Use any of:
+
+- ```cmake
+  add_subdirectory(path/to/mappedfile)
+  ```
+
+- ```cmake
+  include(FetchContent)
+  FetchContent_Declare(
+      decodeless_mappedfile
+      GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/decodeless/mappedfile.git
+      GIT_TAG release_tag
+      GIT_SHALLOW TRUE
+  )
+  FetchContent_MakeAvailable(decodeless_mappedfile)
+  ```
+
+- ```cmake
+  find_package(decodeless_mappedfile REQUIRED CONFIG PATHS paths/to/search)
+  ```
+
+Then,
+
+```cmake
+target_link_libraries(myproject PRIVATE decodeless::mappedfile)
+```
+
 ## Notes
 
 - Windows implementation uses unofficial section API for `NtExtendSection` from

include/decodeless/detail/mappedfile_linux.hpp

@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2024 Pyarelal Knowles, MIT License
+// Copyright (c) 2024-2025 Pyarelal Knowles, MIT License
 
 #pragma once
 
+#include <assert.h>
 #include <decodeless/detail/mappedfile_common.hpp>
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <exception>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <limits>
+#include <optional>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <string>
-#include <optional>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
@@ -128,14 +129,25 @@ class MemoryMap {
         return static_cast<address_type>(static_cast<byte_type*>(m_address) + offset);
     }
     size_t       size() const { return m_size; }
-    void         sync(int flags = MS_SYNC | MS_INVALIDATE)
+    void         sync(size_t offset, size_t size) const
+        requires Writable
+    {
+        assert(offset + size <= m_size);
+        size_t alignedOffset = offset & ~(pageSize() - 1);
+        size_t alignedSize = size + offset - alignedOffset;
+        void*  offsetAddress = static_cast<void*>(
+            static_cast<std::byte*>(const_cast<void*>(m_address)) + alignedOffset);
+        if (msync(offsetAddress, alignedSize, MS_SYNC | MS_INVALIDATE) == -1)
+            throw LastError();
+    }
+    void sync() const
         requires Writable
     {
         // ENOMEM "Cannot allocate memory" here likely means something remapped
         // the range before this object went out of scope. I haven't found a
         // good way to avoid this other than the user being careful to delete
         // the object before remapping.
-        if (msync(const_cast<void*>(m_address), m_size, flags) == -1)
+        if (msync(const_cast<void*>(m_address), m_size, MS_SYNC | MS_INVALIDATE) == -1)
             throw LastError();
     }
     void resize(size_t size) {
@@ -188,6 +200,16 @@ class MappedFile {
 
     data_type data() const { return m_mapped.address(); }
     size_t    size() const { return m_mapped.size(); }
+    void      sync() const
+        requires Writable
+    {
+        m_mapped.sync();
+    }
+    void sync(size_t offset, size_t size) const
+        requires Writable
+    {
+        m_mapped.sync(offset, size);
+    }
 
 private:
     static constexpr int MapMemoryProtection = Writable ? PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE : PROT_READ;
@@ -218,6 +240,14 @@ class ResizableMappedFile {
         if (size)
             map(size);
     }
+    void sync() const {
+        if (m_mapped)
+            m_mapped->sync();
+    }
+    void sync(size_t offset, size_t size) const {
+        if (m_mapped)
+            m_mapped->sync(offset, size);
+    }
 
     // Override default move assignment so m_reserved outlives m_mapped
     ResizableMappedFile& operator=(ResizableMappedFile&& other) noexcept {