P1759 R6 Native handles and file streams

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P1759R0 Native handle from file streams (Elias Kosunen)

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Cologne 2019-07 LEWGI Minutes

P1759R0 Native File Handles From File Streams: Direction Review

Champion: Elias Kosunen

Minute Taker: Pablo Halpern

Start Overview: 07-17 11:24

Start Review: 11:30

Start Polling: 11:39

POLL: We should promise more committee time to pursuing P1759R0, knowing that our time is scarce and this will leave less time for other work.

Strongly For	Weakly For	Neutral	Weakly Against	Strongly Against
3	7	6	1	0

Attendance: 21

That has consensus.

POLL: Knowing what we know now, we should promise more committee time to pursuing a unifying native handle type for the standard library, knowing that our time is scarce and this will leave less time for other work.

Strongly For	Weakly For	Neutral	Weakly Against	Strongly Against
0	0	3	6	5

Attendance: 21

Strong consensus against.

SA: I want us to be able to add new native handle types without breaking ABI.

POLL: Member function vs free function added to stream classes.

Strongly Member Function	Weakly Member Function	Neutral	Weakly Free Function	Strongly Free Function
2	9	4	1	1

Attendance: 21

SFF: Member functions bad, free functions good.

POLL: The native handle type and native handle member function should always exist (they may return an invalid handle).

NO OBJECTION TO UNANIMOUS CONSENT.

POLL: Forward P1759R0, with a member function API that is always defined, to LEWG for C++23, knowing that our time is scarce and this will leave less time for other work.

Strongly For	Weakly For	Neutral	Weakly Against	Strongly Against
3	10	2	2	0

Attendance: 21

That has consensus.

End: 11:53

CONSENSUS: LEWGI sends P1759R0, with a member function API that is always defined, to LEWG for C++23, knowing that our time is scarce and this will leave less time for other work.

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P1759R1 Native handle from file streams (Elias Kosunen)

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P1759R2 Native handle from file streams (Elias Kosunen)