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Asio includes classes added to permit synchronous and asynchronous read
and write operations to be performed on POSIX file descriptors, such as
pipes, standard input and output, and various devices.
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These classes also provide limited support for regular files. This support
assumes that the underlying read and write operations provided by the operating
system never fail with <code class="computeroutput">EAGAIN</code> or <code class="computeroutput">EWOULDBLOCK</code>.
(This assumption normally holds for buffered file I/O.) Synchronous and
asynchronous read and write operations on file descriptors will succeed
but the I/O will always be performed immediately. Wait operations, and
operations involving <code class="computeroutput">asio::null_buffers</code>, are not portably
supported.
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For example, to perform read and write operations on standard input and
output, the following objects may be created:
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<pre class="programlisting">posix::stream_descriptor in(my_io_context, ::dup(STDIN_FILENO));
posix::stream_descriptor out(my_io_context, ::dup(STDOUT_FILENO));
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These are then used as synchronous or asynchronous read and write streams.
This means the objects can be used with any of the <a class="link" href="../../reference/read.html" title="read">read()</a>,
<a class="link" href="../../reference/async_read.html" title="async_read">async_read()</a>, <a class="link" href="../../reference/write.html" title="write">write()</a>,
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free functions.
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<a class="link" href="../../reference/posix__stream_descriptor.html" title="posix::stream_descriptor">posix::stream_descriptor</a>,
<a class="link" href="../../examples/cpp03_examples.html#asio.examples.cpp03_examples.chat">Chat example (C++03)</a>,
<a class="link" href="../../examples/cpp11_examples.html#asio.examples.cpp11_examples.chat">Chat example (C++11)</a>.
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POSIX stream descriptors are only available at compile time if supported
by the target operating system. A program may test for the macro <code class="computeroutput">ASIO_HAS_POSIX_STREAM_DESCRIPTOR</code>
to determine whether they are supported.
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