[boost] File Handle and FILE* wrappers?

Subject: [boost] File Handle and FILE* wrappers?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-11-19 07:16:26

Hi,

Would there be any interest in wrappers for file handles / descriptors
and FILE*?

Sometimes one needs native handles or FILE* for interoperability or
special features like memory mapped IO, but standard C++ doesn't
provide convenient RAII friendly wrappers for these.
The idea seems trivial yet quite useful.

I'm aware of <boost/iostreams/device/file_descriptor.hpp> but it seems
to be too high-level.

I've put a simple start for FILE* at
https://code.google.com/p/xbt/source/browse/trunk/xbt/misc/xbt/cfile.h
What do you think?

Also posted at https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/forum/#!topic/std-proposals/Q4RdFSZggSE

-- 
Olaf