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Re: I/O abstract class suggestions

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On 06/11/11 03:03 PM, jakash3 wrote:
> On Jun 10, 7:59 pm, Ian Collins<ian-n...@hotmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Why don't you keen the standard iostream objects and create specialised
>> streambuf objects?  The streambuf is where the low level, device
>> specific IO operations are located.
>
> You may have a good point, but I'm not very familiar with the C++
> library. Well, I guess you could say that I like to reinvent the
> wheel.

The streambuf is designed to be derived from, it has appropriate virtual 
methods (underflow, overflow and sync give you most of what's needed) to 
support specialisation.

Implementing a streambuf to read from a file descriptor is a great 
learning exercise.

-- 
Ian Collins

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I/O abstract class suggestions jakash3 <jakashthree@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 19:54 -0700
  Re: I/O abstract class suggestions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-11 14:59 +1200
    Re: I/O abstract class suggestions jakash3 <jakashthree@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 20:03 -0700
      Re: I/O abstract class suggestions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-06-11 16:04 +1200
  Re: I/O abstract class suggestions Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-06-11 04:06 -0500
    Re: I/O abstract class suggestions jakash3 <jakashthree@gmail.com> - 2011-06-11 12:35 -0700
      Re: I/O abstract class suggestions Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-06-18 06:35 -0500
    Re: I/O abstract class suggestions Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-06-12 14:43 +0000

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