5 May
2005
5 May
'05
9:50 p.m.
Scott Woods wrote:
[...] I feel as if we have clarified one thing; there can be no iostream input operators over async sockets (the function signature is blocking). Which leaves the output operators and whether iostream output operators over async has any value?
The async implementation you proposed can be supported by blocking I/O functions as far as I understand (or should I say blocking O functions :-) as the whole asynchronicity is hidden behind the interface. The only difference to the standard blocking I/O functions is that your implementation guarantees that blocking I/O function return immediately (which is of course no problem and might be useful for library users). Boris