Re: [boost] File Handle and FILE* wrappers?

15 Dec 2014

      On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Rob Stewart  wrote:
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On November 26, 2014 3:57:06 PM EST, Andrey Semashev  wrote:
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On Wednesday 26 November 2014 20:10:31 Olaf van der Spek wrote:
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Olaf van der Spek 
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It does solve the RAII part but it doesn't provide a standard
interface for native IO.
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Does noone use native IO?
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I do, from time to time. But I always found RAII wrappers sufficient
and used
the native API to work with file descriptors. I usually need something
low-level or non-portable anyway when I do this.
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I use filesystem or IOStreams when I want portability, and otherwise use RAII and native APIs when the code isn't portable.
Interestingly, I just stumbled across a bit of live legacy code that
relies on __gnu_cxx::stdio_filebuf to allow constructing an istream or
ostream from an open FILE*. This does not port to libc++.

What surprised me was that I could find no support for FILE* in
Boost.Iostreams. Writing a streambuf isn't rocket science, but I would
think that this particular use case would be common enough to warrant
library support.

Am I overlooking something?

Re: [boost] File Handle and FILE* wrappers?

Nat Goodspeed