Re: [boost] [asio]: extending asio

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-07 08:44:03

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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:05 AM, dizzy <dizzy_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thursday 07 August 2008 14:26:23 Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
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> Of course it's cool but there are limitations given by the OS and the GUI
> framework you use that do not allow that to happen. Do you have on all asio
> supported platforms an OS system call that can wait for events either from
> sockets or GUI? If so then you can do it (with some modification on asio to
> allow extensibility at that level). If not then you can't do it no matter how
> you design asio.

I don't know about linux, but win32 can wait for IO completion ports
on any thread, so while GUI has this limitation, AIOs wouldn't,
so they could live happily ever after. ;).
Am I missing anything?

> --
> Mihai RUSU                                      Email: dizzy_at_[hidden]
>                        "Linux is obsolete" -- AST

Regards,
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Felipe Magno de Almeida