How to construct a c++ fstream from a POSIX file descriptor?

Question

I\'m basically looking for a C++ version of fdopen(). I did a bit of research on this and it is one of those things that seems like it should be easy, but turns out to be v

Answer 1

Part of the original (unstated) motivation of this question is to have the ability to pass data either between programs or between two parts of a test program using a safely created temporary file, but tmpnam() throws a warning in gcc, so I wanted to use mkstemp() instead. Here is a test program that I wrote based on the answer given by Éric Malenfant but using mkstemp() instead of fdopen(); this works on my Ubuntu system with Boost libraries installed:

#include 
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using boost::iostreams::stream;
using boost::iostreams::file_descriptor_sink;
using boost::filesystem::path;
using boost::filesystem::exists;
using boost::filesystem::status;
using boost::filesystem::remove;

int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) {
  char tmpTemplate[13];
  strncpy(tmpTemplate, "/tmp/XXXXXX", 13);
  stream tmp(mkstemp(tmpTemplate));
  assert(tmp.is_open());
  tmp << "Hello mkstemp!" << std::endl;
  tmp.close();
  path tmpPath(tmpTemplate);
  if (exists(status(tmpPath))) {
    std::cout << "Output is in " << tmpPath.file_string() << std::endl;
    std::string cmd("cat ");
    cmd += tmpPath.file_string();
    system(cmd.c_str());
    std::cout << "Removing " << tmpPath.file_string() << std::endl;
    remove(tmpPath);
  }
}