Re: [Boost-users] [iostreams] why doesn't file_sink flush?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [iostreams] why doesn't file_sink flush?
From: eg (egoots_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-06 15:43:02

Andy Schweitzer wrote:
> eg wrote:
>> Andy Schweitzer wrote:
>>> eg wrote:
>>>> Andrew Schweitzer wrote:
>>

> That's a good idea. I don't know, I don't know the library well enough. 
> That seemed like more code... but maybe a better idea. I tried this, 
> wrapping fstream. Not sure if there's a reason not to do this:
> 
> class flushable_file_sink
> {
<snip>

I don't see why not. You just need to make sure the lifetime of your 
stream outlives the filter chain which I think the iostreams file_sink 
does for you (see: 
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/file.html).

Having said that, it might be nice to add a feature request to make 
file_sink and file_descriptor_sink "flushable" so that future users 
could benefit without having to write their own.

Do you want to create a New Ticket for this at:
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/