[Boost-users] bidirectional file_descriptor

From: Johannes Balle (johannes.balle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-10 11:20:47

Hello,

I am currently trying to use the iostreams lib with standard BSD socket() 
file descriptors. If I understand correctly, I need a "bidirectional" 
stream buffer, so I tried overriding the mode like this:

stream_buffer<file_descriptor, 
std::char_traits<file_descriptor::char_type>, 
std::allocator<file_descriptor::char_type>, 
boost::iostreams::bidirectional>

But I cannot instantiate this because a static assertion fails. I assume 
this happens because the file_descriptor class is defined to be seekable 
(which a TCP socket is not), so what is the best way to do this?

Thanks for your help ...

Johannes Ballé
Philips Applied Technologies

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