On 10/14/2010 8:34 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Starting a new thread from Denis' question: > >> Can we outline basic Stream interface now so that we could move on? > > Here's the input transport layer. Transport has no concern for formatting - it > just moves stuff around. >
I suggest having read and write with offset style apis. See also: man pread The value here is that you can safely concurrently access a file descriptor and not have to worry about atomicity of seek+read or seek+write at the app layer.
