Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
That was supposed to be: http://www.boost.org/libs/iostreams/doc/index.html?path=3.7
Well... all I see is an empty page with the sentence "[To be supplied in the next release]", but I guess the page is simply not up-to-date ;-) Thanks for your explanation. As you said, it's a pity that we can't impose copy-constructibily only in the cases where it's really required, but the advantage is probably not worth the trouble in terms of effort and potential incompatibilies. In the end, I implemented my device wrapping the non-copiable part in a shared_ptr, it's not too inconvenient. In case you are wondering, I used boost.iostreams to provide a stream-like interface to pipes loosely inspired by Python's subprocess module <http://python.org/doc/2.4.2/lib/module-subprocess.html>. I am going to post a proposal in a separate thread. Ganesh