The more I think about this problem, the more I think it's about stream buffers instead of the actual streams. In particular, you have a temp_filebuf class whose lifetime determines the lifetime of the filesystem object: template <class Char, class Traits> class temp_filebuf : public std::basic_streambuf<Char, Traits> { public: temp_filebuf(std::ios_base::openmode mode); /* streambuf impementation */ }; The private implementation could use the pimpl idiom so that the strengths of particular platforms can be leveraged instead of using standard constructs. The usage would then be: temp_filebuf buf(std::ios_base::in | std::ios_base::out); std::iostream io(&buf); /* use io */ So as long as the temp_filebuf exists, the temporary file can be used by a stream. I'd be interested to hear what people think about this solution. Thanks, Dylan Tomek wrote:
Hi,
Can you add to boost::filesystem namespace class for temporary files which will remove file on object destruction ?
I prepared same sample code : http://psycho.pl/pub/src/tmpfile.cc
If you say that this is ok, I will write it using boost library and also working on win32.
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