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

Subject: Re: [boost] File Handle and FILE* wrappers?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-11-29 09:16:13

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Josh Juran <jjuran_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I use POSIX I/O calls frequently.  I adapted Lisa Lippincott and Marshall Clow's work on Nitrogen to create a library called poseven, based on the same 'nucleus' core library.  p7::fd_t is an enum type for a file descriptor, and n::owned<p7::fd_t> and n::shared<p7::fd_t> are smart resources that work like unique_ptr and shared_ptr (loosely speaking) respectively.  Much of it is about a decade old, early in my exposure to generic programming, though just recently I added p7::coprocess.

Interesting. Why are you using an enum to store the fd?
Do you think it'd be useful to move parts of this functionality into Boost?

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Olaf