◄ofstream► ◄Up► ◄Contents► ◄Index► ◄Back► ──The Microsoft iostream Classes──────────────────────────────────────────── filebuf* rdbuf() const; Remarks Returns a pointer to the filebuf buffer object that is associated with this stream. (Note that this is not the character buffer; the filebuf object contains a pointer to the character area.) Example extern ofstream ofs; int fd = ofs.rdbuf()->fd(); // Get the file descriptor for ofs -♦-