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Subject: Re: [boost] [SoC] [Asio] User input
From: Zachary Turner (divisortheory_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-10 11:39:49


On Mar 10, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]
> wrote:

> Rutger ter Borg wrote:
>> On the Asio-list, asynchronous file I/O is wished for every now and
>> then, too.
>
> Isn't it already there?
> Asio has support for POSIX file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs.

Posix stream_descriptor is not usable for asynchronous i/o since by
definition it does not allow seeking. But windows support is really
good, its a huge part of my application

Zach
  


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