From -4933194963955480960 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,a503f12190fad83c X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: Barry Margolin Subject: Re: What does the standard say about file descriptors Date: 1999/10/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 536937214 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: X-Original-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:00:50 GMT X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Trace: ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au 939961253 28353 128.250.37.153 (15 Oct 1999 04:20:53 GMT) Organization: GTE Internetworking, Cambridge, MA X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUAOAarnuEDnX0m9pzZAQEmnwF5ASSkaPWeKkUKP16aX80rLBvpVjYiV14D YODekujSvimM5xF1zLjg3Rbbijk5zI9o =eyrf X-Copies-To: never NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Oct 1999 04:20:53 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ In article , Edward Luke wrote: >I find that sometimes I need to interface iostream objects with low >level POSIX file descriptors. For example, I would like to have a >ostream that connects to a pipe via POSIX popen(). popen() doesn't return a file descriptor, it returns a stdio FILE*. You can use stdio from C++. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@bbnplanet.com GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]