[boost] [network] An RFC posted to the sandbox

From: Don G (dongryphon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-12 09:41:34

Hi All,

I've posted a zip with an HTML file and an HPP file that describes an
abstract way to interact with the network. It is intended as a medium
level interface. By that I mean it is above the socket layer, but
below buffering/proactor/reactor kinds of thinking. It is really a
pure C++ way to interact with the primitive concepts of networking.

In the proposal I posted, work is done by worker threads. User code
interacts with these to do async/non-blocking operations (see the
HTML for details). What is missing is the pure async library that
would allow trivial marshalling of such callbacks back to a single
thread. I will look at putting that piece together with usage
examples in the next couple days to round out the interface proposal.

I am curious to know what folks think about this approach.

I believe the code recently posted by Michel André is complementary
in the sense that it is a way to connect implementation details such
as stream/datagram with how I/O blocking is performed. That said,
there is a fundamental difference in what the user of the library
would see and have to handle. It may just be me, but I am not a fan
of the coupling created by explicitly connecting multiple I/O objects
with a dispatcher. This is a tedious prospect. Especially when there
are limits on the number of such connections a dispatcher can handle
(such as 64-ish for Windows).

Best,
Don

                
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