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Re: reading a temp file in C++

From	ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject	Re: reading a temp file in C++
Date	2011-06-30 03:06 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:17:36 +0000, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:

> It may even "delete" (unlink()) the old file, the file descriptor in the
> program that invoked vi (or any other editor) using system()
> will still be valid - while the original file then has no name in the
> file system anymore ot still exists (via its inodes(s)) until nothing
> uses it anymore and it only then finally gets removed com- pletely.

No - the problem seems to have been that i couldn't open the file with 
the file descriptor using binary or ios::add mode.  It needed to be 
opened as ios.in and ios.out.  Then everything was fine.

Ruben

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reading a temp file in C++ Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-06-28 08:33 +0000
  Re: reading a temp file in C++ Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-06-28 09:46 +0100
  Re: reading a temp file in C++ James Waldby <not@valid.invalid> - 2011-06-28 15:58 +0000
    Re: reading a temp file in C++ jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-06-28 21:17 +0000
      Re: reading a temp file in C++ ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2011-06-30 03:06 +0000

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