Re: AC_CHECK_FILES on /dev/stdin

[Andreas Schwab]

David Fang <address@hidden> writes:

>       To give a little more context for what I'm trying to do in C++
> (experimentally): I've discovered that std::ifstream foo("/dev/stdin")
> results in a file stream that works just like cin, likewise for stdout,
> etc...  Just like in standard C, one could use stdin, stdout, stderr as
> FILE*, I'd like to do the equivalent with std::fstream's.  (std::cin is a
> basic_istream, not type-equivalent to a basic_ifstream.)

But basic_ifstream is a basic_istream.

> I'm writing a little stream manager that maintains stream objects (not
> references to) internally without any run-time polymorphism, so I need
> one single type to handle both stdio and file streams,

That would be basic_istream/ostream.

Andreas.

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