[Dev-C++] FILE*

[Erik S. <esc...@gm...>]

I was told to use fileno and an fstream constructor to convert a  
FILE* to an fstream.

I'm trying to do this on a mac, here's the ode that failed:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc,char *argv[]){

	fstream pipe(fileno(popen("ls","r")));
	
	string total;
	char c;
	
	cout<<"initialized"<<endl;
	
	while((pipe.get(c))!=NULL){
	
		total+=c;
		
	}
	
	cout<<total<<endl;
	
	pipe.close();
	
	return 0;

}

any ideas why this doesn't work