Re: iostreams equivalent to C's fopen "r+"

From: Mike Wahler (mkwahler_at_mkwahler.net)
Date: 11/18/03 

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:44:48 GMT

"Dave O'Hearn" <daveoh77@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:3e05f9e4.0311181325.39b16d9b@posting.google.com...
> I think I have to use the hack I found online, where you open for 'in'
> mode first, then if it succeeds, reopen for in|out mode. It's odd that
> 'nocreate' isn't standard, since it's easy enough for a library to
> fake even if the OS doesn't support it... and if the library doesn't
> fake it, all the user code has to fake it instead. But that didn't
> happen, so I will just have to fake it myself, oh well. Thanks.

It appears to me that you're suffering from a broken implementation.
std::ios::in | std::ios::out should not create the file if it does
not exist. Perhaps consider an upgrade, to a newer version or a
different vendor.

-Mike

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