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

On Wednesday 26 November 2014 20:10:31 Olaf van der Spek wrote:

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

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On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Sylvester-Bradley, Gareth

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shared_ptr/unique_ptr work fine for me with FILE*, one only has to write a deleter. A dedicated class would be needed for POSIX file descriptors though.

Peter Sommerlad and Andrew L. Sandoval's unique_resource RAII proposal uses both FILE* and POSIX file descriptors as examples. I think this is the latest revision: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4189.pdf

It does solve the RAII part but it doesn't provide a standard interface for native IO.

Not many responses... Does noone use native IO?

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.