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

Subject: Re: [boost] File Handle and FILE* wrappers?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-11-26 14:10:31

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

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Olaf van der Spek <ml_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Sylvester-Bradley, Gareth
> <Gareth.Sylvester-Bradley_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
>
> --
> Olaf

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Olaf