Is there any portable way to use standard iostream functions together
with socket facilities  <sys/socket.h>?
Do iostream classes has any facilities to take low-level file descriptor
and use it as input source or output sink?

Current standard ISO/IEC 14882:1998 do not say anything about such
things as file descriptor, FILE* or socket.

I know, it possible to inherit new class from streambuf and then rewrite
all input/output functions, but I think, there should be some standard
simple way to work with sockets in C++.

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