Re: [boost] surveying async network io libraries

On 8/12/05, Cliff Green <cliffg@codewrangler.net> wrote:

I'm clarifying because when I see "async network io" I usually think of proactive models, rather than reactive models (I think the Linux asio library is a proactive model ...).

Just to clarify one point: asio is portable. It runs on Windows (using I/O completion ports), Linux (via epoll or select), Solaris and *should* work on any other UNIX-like platform that supports select(2). I had to make a couple of very simple changes to get it to compile on OS/X (the gethostby*_r functions don't seem to be available on this platform). -- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com