On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:59:55 -0500 Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Sofia, > > 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 > > When does a person want to access the file descriptor? Well, for file locking purposes / record locking / range locking purposes. > > 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? > > For those kinds of purposes, an fstream is the wrong thing to use to access the file. > > --Eljay > > > >
