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[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr> writes:

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| 	I know that the current goal of gcc and libstdc++-v3 is to 
| implement the C++ standard. However, that standard does not seem to 
| have considered the possibility of getting the file descriptor for 
| iostreams. This is very annoying when trying to use some system calls 
| such as mmap that requires such file descriptors and obliges the 
| users to use the old C interface. Would it be accepted to add some 
| method (in basic_file.h), eventually protected by sthg like 
| #ifdef GNU_EXTENSION to add a method that would provide this file 
| descriptor ??

This makes the assumption that basic_file.h should be implemented in
terms of file descriptors and functions on file descriptors.

-- Gaby