"Boris"
Boost.Asio currently supports only network I/O out of the box. However it can be extended to support any asynchronous I/O operations. For example I have created a file monitor which I can plug into a Boost.Asio I/O core service. If a file changes then a handler is called. Thus it's the same concept as used by the network services (which are really the only services provided by Boost.Asio today and which made me also wonder some time ago why this library isn't simply called Boost.Net).
Boris
Hello Boris, I am very interested in the file monitor you have created. Would you mind sharing it as an advanced usage example of Asio? Maybe I have misunderstood something, but it looks to me as if Asio contains an asynchronous event model that can be used for *any* type of event. Not just IO-based. Can you say that this is the case? -- Daniel