Re: [boost] asio formal review

From: Jonathan Biggar (jon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-12 11:34:31

Christopher Kohlhoff wrote:
> Hi Eugene,
> 
> --- Eugene Alterman <eugalt_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>>The bottom line of my suggestion is to have 2 distinct
>>interfaces. One is for stream establishment and connection
>>properties management. It provides efficient protocol stack
>>layer navigation and access (but no stream i/o operations).
>>The other one is strictly layered streaming interface for data
>>transfer.
>>
>>Do you think it makes sense?
> 
> 
> Could you sketch out some rough code illustrating what you are
> thinking of? I'm having trouble seeing how it would fit
> together, in particular how you would transition from one
> interface the other.

I think Eugene's basic idea is to have separate factory classes that are 
not streams that do the accept and connect handling.  Once a connection 
is established, the an operation on the factory returns (or initializes) 
a stream object.

-- 
Jon Biggar
Levanta
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