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

Subject: Re: [boost] File Handle and FILE* wrappers?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-11-20 03:10:48

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