Accessing the underlying file descriptor in fstream

[Kevin Atkinson]

> Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>
> | About a year ago I asked about if libstdc++ will provide a way to access
> | the underlying file descriptor in the fstream class.
>
> That question assumes that our libstdc++ IOStream facilities *should* be
> FILE*-based, which we already debated in the past as not to be a
> viable assumption.

I am not interested in the C FILE * I am interested in the low/level file
descriptor which all file I/O on a posix system basically needs to be on
top of.

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Kevin Atkinson
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