G'day david!

07 Dec 93, david nugent writes to Jason Lingohr:


 >> My question is basically this: is it
 >> silly/dangerous/stupid/insane to mix file handles and
 >> buffered, high-level I/O??

 dn> It can be done safely (although not portably), but there are some
 dn> gotchas. It depends on what you're "mixing".


I have had many problems doing this type of thing, and now avoid it
entirely. I once wrote a set of file copying routines, all of which
filtered down to handle-based function calls. Eg) there was a function
which took FILE * args, and this function called a lower handle-based
function with the associated handles. I found however that because I was
bypassing the stream buffers, files were not being completely copied, and
bits were missing of both the beginning and the ends. In short, anything
involving disk writes or reads, I would avoid.

Brian

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