30 Jan
2004
30 Jan
'04
5:41 p.m.
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
"Darryl Green" <Darryl.Green@unitab.com.au> writes:
I don't see why the library shouldn't be generic enough to allow a unification on a platform that supports it.
I suppose it is possible, but is there any platform other than Windows that supports it? Also, it seems that the interface to support waiting on a mutex would be too loo-level to then allow use of either asynchronous I/O or synchronous I/O, depending on the platform.
I'm currently leaning towards picking up work on the existing Boost.Socket implementation and adding generic waits at a higher level or perhaps in another package? There's no reason a condvar can't be used for this type of thing. No need to rely on nonportable library calls. Sean