On 3/9/07, Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote:
Giovanni Piero Deretta wrote:
[...] 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.
This sounds like an excellent project. Christopher has also graciously agreed to be a boost SoC mentor -- so there's a good chance such a project can get expert help.
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.
Please do -- the student proposal period isn't far off...
Added to the wiki as "Asio Asynchronous FS Support". Link here: http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?Google_Summer... gpd