-----Original Message----- From: me22 [mailto:me22.ca@gmail.com] Sent: 10 April 2006 16:24 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Delayed write file handling

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My question is this - does Boost provide anything that does

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does anyone know of anything that does), or am I looking at

On 4/10/06, James Hughes wrote: this already (or this the wrong

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way? Should I look at boost filesystem, and provide extra bits to implement what we need? Alternatives?

I'm not certain that you need Boost for this.

streambufs are already designed to buffer information, so simply providing a large enough buffer for the amount of information generated on average in the time span you wish between writes ought to limit writes enough for your application.

The main issue I foresee would be insuring that std::endl isn't used when you don't want the flush and insuring that the implementations of your streambufs actually use the buffer as you're expecting.

~ SWMc

I can see what you are getting at, but I am not sure that it would give us everything we need. For example, if our machine power fails, we have very limited amount of battery backup to store everything cached to flash before we run out of watts, so whatever scheme I implement needs to be able to be told to flush immediately - can I do that with streambufs? Hmm. I will look in to it though, as I like the concept. James