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Re: Accessing the UNIX file descriptor inside an fstream
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>, Chris Rankin <rankinc at pacbell dot net>
- Subject: Re: Accessing the UNIX file descriptor inside an fstream
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:54:55 -0700
- cc: "libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org" <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>
> Chris is right, people do need this functionality and it doesn't serve
> our users to deny them it on pedantic conformance issues.
I agree. On UNIX-like systems, there should be a way to get a file
descriptor from an stream, in the cases where there really is an
underlying descriptor.
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