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Re: Accessing the file descriptor for an fstream (gcc3-)
- From: Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay at adobe dot com>
- To: Sofia Nilsson <mynameisfia at yahoo dot se>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:59:55 -0500
- Subject: Re: Accessing the file descriptor for an fstream (gcc3-)
Hi Sofia,
Support for accessing the file descriptor for an fstream has been removed for two reasons:
1) allowing it is in violation of the ISO 14882 specification
2) not all operating systems have file descriptors, and as such, it makes for non-portable code
When does a person want to access the file descriptor? Well, for file locking purposes / record locking / range locking purposes.
That kind of functionality is, usually, very OS specific. (Some OS's need to have a locking-enabled kernel compiled, special.)
For those kinds of purposes, an fstream is the wrong thing to use to access the file.
--Eljay