On 3/9/07, Darren Garvey <lists.drrngrvy@googlemail.com> wrote:
Maybe it's just me, but the apparent difficulty of the different soc ideas varies quite a bit. As it is, I'm unsure if a cgi library that works with SCGI and FastCGI - one based on boost and asio specifically - would be considered a reasonable project for the SoC? I don't think there is currently any such library for c++ and I for one would find it very useful. Is it worth my while submitting a proposal? This is something I'd very much like to do, especially as part of the SoC.
Incidentally, it's a project which _could_ be 'extended' into implementing unix domain sockets or pipes too as technically, these transport media should be supported by fastcgi applications.
What I would really like to see in asio is asynchronous FS IO (using Ovelapped IO on windows, posix aio where available and a thread pool everywhere else). There have been many requests for this functionality, but Christopher didn't get around to implement it yet. I think that such a project could be completed in a couple of months. May be the student could even find the time to add pipe support :). As soon as I find some time I'll add the proposal to the wiki. gpd