Re: Advice about deriving class from streambuf ...

I'm writing a set of classes intended to shim the way a midly exotic
operating environment--an extensible DBMS in this case--handles I/O.
The idea is that I have a set of classes already written that serialize
themseves into files in the orthodox fashion. That is I have:

class Synopses
{
 ...
 SIZE_T read ( std::istream * fin );
 SIZE_T write ( std::ostream * fout );
 ...
}

So! I want to create a class that sub-classes ostream to write to a
new, mildly exotic, kind of stream. In my bad-old-C-days I would simply
have created a lil vector of function pointers with tons of (void **),
but I'm convinced this is 'bad form'.