Re: [Boost-users] boost::iostreams::copy() closes the sink and source?

From: eg (egoots_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-24 14:08:54

Melville, Ryan wrote:
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> It seems that boost::iostreams::copy() closes its Source and Sink input 
> parameters once it completes its copy.  This seems to be a problem for 
> us because copy() is not the last thing we want to do with our Sinks; we 
> copy() into them but then also put more stuff in them (which now 
> fails).  This seems like a natural use case to me…
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> Does anyone know why boost::iostreams::copy() feels the need to close 
> the Source and Sink passed to it?  It seems to me that it should not.  
> The caller may or may not want them closed after the copy() and this 
> behavior precludes using copy() as anything other than the last thing 
> you want to do with a Sink.
> 

Could it be related to:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.user/33330

which was addressed in:

http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1624