Accessing the file descriptor for an fstream (gcc3-)

[Vitaly V. Manushkin]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:59:55 -0500
Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com> wrote:

> Hi Sofia,
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> 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
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> When does a person want to access the file descriptor?  Well, for file locking purposes / record locking / range locking purposes.
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> That kind of functionality is, usually, very OS specific.  (Some OS's need to have a locking-enabled kernel compiled, special.)

Hmm.... what about making fd -> stdin, stdout, stderr?

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> For those kinds of purposes, an fstream is the wrong thing to use to access the file.
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> --Eljay
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