
25 Apr
2005
25 Apr
'05
2:38 p.m.
On 4/25/05, Giovanni P. Deretta <lordshoo@gmail.com> wrote:
BTW, polling for I/O readiness (i.e. the select model) does not make sense with files, i believe that the asynchronous I/O model is the only non blocking io model that fits all stream types.
What if that file is a socket or pipe?
[Really off-topic] BTW, I would *love* complete, standard, compile-time reflection facilities.
Who wouldn't? I think this is pretty much covered by the Boost.Langbinding project (of which I believe there is only a design and precursor implementation in Boost.Python) -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com