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

It actually is quite easy. Nicolai M. Josuttis has released fdstream in conjunction with his book The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference. You can find the 184 line implementation here.