cannam@128: Possible upgrades to gzfilebuf: cannam@128: cannam@128: - The ability to do putback (e.g. putbackfail) cannam@128: cannam@128: - The ability to seek (zlib supports this, but could be slow/tricky) cannam@128: cannam@128: - Simultaneous read/write access (does it make sense?) cannam@128: cannam@128: - Support for ios_base::ate open mode cannam@128: cannam@128: - Locale support? cannam@128: cannam@128: - Check public interface to see which calls give problems cannam@128: (due to dependence on library internals) cannam@128: cannam@128: - Override operator<<(ostream&, gzfilebuf*) to allow direct copying cannam@128: of stream buffer to stream ( i.e. os << is.rdbuf(); )