mini@giants.wpd.sgi.com (Mark Minnihan) (02/06/91)
I'm having a problem with the AT&T iostream library that I haven't been able to solve. The scenario is as follows : fstream my_stream("/tmp/foo",ios::out); my_stream.seekg(100000); my_stream << "DUMMY LINE" << endl; my_stream.close(); My problem results when the write fails( insufficient disk space,etc ). When I query the status of the stream with "my_stream.fail()", I do not get an error condition. However, if I get the file descriptor from the stream and use it to call the "write" system call, the write returns -1 as expected. I should add that when using my_stream to attempt the writes, "/tmp/foo" is created as a zero length file if there is insufficient disk space. Given that I would like to use fstream and not the file descriptor, how do I catch these types of errors. Needless to say, your help is greatly appreciated. -- thanks, Mark Minnihan