Re: [boost] [asio] Tutorial 7 using strdup, new

Stefan Seefeld wrote:

Giovanni P. Deretta wrote:

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You could argue that as this is a useful behavior stream_socket should have pointer semantics by default and be reference counted. But you would force the space and time overhead of a shared_ptr to everybody (btw, shared_ptr still require dynamic allocation of the reference counter).

If users would always only hold references to the real resource, how would they declare interest in a 'ready-for-read' event, and which of the references would receive it ?

I do not understand exactly what you are asking? Could you eleaborate? -- Giovanni P. Deretta