Feature request: Support for larger-than-available-memory files/devices by seeking through the file instead of attempting to load the entire thing into memory?

[ipaqmaster]

Is this a reasonable feature request? I'd love if binwalk could go over large files and images without causing the host to run out of memory as it tries to load them entirely into it

[CFSworks]

I have also been affected by this. Accessing the file through mmap() may be a good option: it still makes the file available in the memory space of the program as expected by current design, but it allows the operating system to page the target on demand.