Re: [Boost-users] Adding a new I/O service to Boost.Asio [WAS: Does MPI use ASIO?]

Christopher, If it is not too much to ask, it might be a good idea to add this to your "examples" section. If it is somehow not desirable for copyright or whatever other reason, you could create "contrib" folder where stuff like this would be going, and so it will not be lost in the long run. Alternatively (but, imho, much less desirable) is to have link to this file from documentation, so people will have some sort of reference without need to dig through mail archive. just my 2 cents (cad) Best regards, Andrey On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:32:28 -0600, Boris wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:53:09 +0200, Daniel Lidström wrote:

Daniel,

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[...]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* typeof event. Not just IO-based. Can you say that this is the case?

yes, this is true! There is not much documentation though to learn how to create services for Boost.Asio. I got some help from Christoph and tried to understand the code in Boost.Asio. I didn't want to create a file monitor originally but as it's a rather simple service it was a good test to see if I understood everything. :) As it is a rather simple service it might be a good reference implementation for others though.

I uploaded the file monitor now to http://www.highscore.de/boost/file_monitor.zip

The zip archive contains a README file where I wrote down everything I learned about Boost.Asio services and what might be helpful for others to know when they start to create their own services.

Hope it helps, Boris