Re: Sockets library requirements

From: davlet_panech (davlet_panech_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-24 19:03:55

--- In boost_at_y..., "Vladimir Ciobanu" <psycho_at_t...> wrote:
>     I've talked about this with serveral people and they pointed 
out that
> it doesn't make sense to derive a socket from any standard stream. 
The
> reason is that there are some functions which simply don't make 
sense
> for a socket stream. Example:
> 
> seek*( )
> 

Could you give more examples? The thing is, seek*() is a noop for 
standard streams (stdin, stdout) also, so I don't see this as a big 
problem.

D.P.