Re: [boost] Re: Re: Boost.Thread : IO multiplexing

From: Sean Kelly (sean_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-30 12:41:22

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
> "Darryl Green" <Darryl.Green_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>I don't see why the library shouldn't be generic enough to allow a
>>unification on a platform that supports it.
> 
> I suppose it is possible, but is there any platform other than Windows
> that supports it?  Also, it seems that the interface to support waiting
> on a mutex would be too loo-level to then allow use of either
> asynchronous I/O or synchronous I/O, depending on the platform.

I'm currently leaning towards picking up work on the existing 
Boost.Socket implementation and adding generic waits at a higher level 
or perhaps in another package?  There's no reason a condvar can't be 
used for this type of thing.  No need to rely on nonportable library calls.

Sean