On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Jeff Garland wrote:
I'm hoping you'll have looked at
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostSocket
which documents prior work in this on sockets and multiplexing by a variety of boosters. The work seems to have stalled out, but there is an implementation in the sandbox along with requirements, etc.
Thanks. I was unaware that this had been done, and the design seems pretty nice. One thing I'd like to clarify though, it seems there are two models. The basic examples use a stream metaphor to read/write data and seem as if read operations will block until the data is available. The other uses an observer pattern to receive events as they occur, which would be used with multiplexing server implementations. Is this correct? Sean