Re: [Boost-users] iostreams and serial ports help

From: Rob Desbois (rob.desbois_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-18 13:58:08

Eric,

Thanks, that does help.
Are you able to comment on whether I 'should' be doing this as regards the
non-blocking and non-seekable nature of a serial port?

Thanks,

Rob

On Jan 18, 2008 6:46 PM, Eric MALENFANT <Eric.Malenfant_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Rob Desbois, le 18 janvier 2008 08:02:
> >
> > After trying to compile I realised that a SeekableDevice
> > provides read, write and seek functions, nothing else.
> > Am I seriously misunderstanding the point of boost::iostreams?
>
> A file_descriptor only implements the Device concept, it not an
> std::iostream.
> If you want an std::iostream, you wrap the Device in a
> boost::iostreams::stream which, as stated in its documentation: "performs
> i/o by delegating to a contained Device", and "derives from a specialization
> of std::basic_istream, std::basic_ostream or std::basic_iostream, depending
> on whether the underlying Device models Source, Sink or both."
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Éric Malenfant
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