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From: ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
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Subject: Re: reading a temp file in C++
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:06:59 +0000 (UTC)
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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