help with standard streams and the file descriptor

[Benjamin Kosnik]

>The C++ standard does not support this as fd() is gone. Is there a way 
>to do this in a portable fashion or will I be able to make this work 
>only if I use the gcc extension as described in
>
>http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/27_io/howto.html#11

There is no portable way to use a file descriptor with a filebuf. Your
best bet is something like the wrapper class as referenced above.

-benjamin