It is a bit surprising that this is the first request I can recall for a temporary file facility. Seems like a natural addition.
I've been planning such a facility for iostreams, but filesystem seems
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Turkanis" <technews@kangaroologic.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 10:16 AM Subject: Re: [boost] temp file [snip] like a
better home for it, especially if I don't have to code it. ;-)
temp_file would be used extensively by the iostreams (and serialization?) tests.
$0.02 Serialization will/should use "temp_file". I have been doing a bunch of related work on a persistent vector, i.e. a template that has (almost) the same i/f as std::vector but persists from one execution of an app to the next. Un-named (i.e. temporary) persistent vectors are definitely useful. Implementation of "clear" is made much simpler. Scott