Re: [boost] [asio] Tutorial 7 using strdup, new

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-06 23:10:33

Giovanni P. Deretta wrote:

> You could argue that as this is a useful behavior stream_socket should 
> have pointer semantics by default and be reference counted. But you 
> would force the space and time overhead of a shared_ptr to everybody 
> (btw, shared_ptr still require dynamic allocation of the reference 
> counter).

If users would always only hold references to the real resource, how
would they declare interest in a 'ready-for-read' event, and which of
the references would receive it ?

Regards,
                Stefan