Gregory Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Friday, Jul 18, 2003, at 15:21 America/Denver, John Madsen wrote: > >> "Eugene Lazutkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I have a few comments in no particular order. >>> >>> 1) I cannot imaging someone programming in C++ and using "FILE*s,and >>> file >>> descriptors" instead of iostream & Co. You've must be talking about >>> incomplete systems like embedded systems, which don't have complete >>> standard >>> C++ library. Are there any real life examples for that? How frequent >>> are >>> they? >>> >> >> That's quite right. I don't see much use in having a wrapper for >> FILE*. > >IMHO stdio is a useful standard, and for some purposes is better than >iostreams. > >Of course, boost::shared_ptr can already wrap FILE* pretty easily. >
Yes, shared_ptr can wrap a FILE*, but I think there are many good reasons why shared_ptr and family are not a good general solution for handle management. See my original message at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/boost/1703576. John _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
