clearing error flags on streams

I had to interface with zlib so I downloaded a thing called gzstream from http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/compgeom/gzstream/

The problem is that when I try to reset the EOF flags on an igzstream object like so

Code:

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is.clear();
is.seekg(0, ios::beg);

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the EOF flag is cleared but any subsequent calls on operator>>() don't work.

I looked through the code and the derived igzstream class does not seem to be overloading any of the flags from its parent class. And I'm guessing this should not be an issue (or I'm most probably wrong). I'd appreciate it if anyone can point out how to fix this.

I looked at the code. The stream does not support seeking. It silently fails. Notice that there are zero calls to gzseek() -- it can't possibly work.

When you seek to the beginning, apparently the base iostream is clearing the flags, but the world is not in a good state. The library seems broken for allowing something that doesn't actually work.

The workaround is to close and reopen the stream to read it again.