Is it possible to make a custom stream work like the stanadrd ones in regard for errors? That is by default use the good/fail/bad/eof bits rather than exceptions?
The boost docs only mention throwing an std::failure for stream errors and letting other error propagate (eg a badalloc from trying to allocate a buffer), however the boost code does not seem to catch these, instead relying on the user code to handle them, but all my existing code relies on the good(), bad() etc methods and the clear() method in cases where it needs to try again after an error.