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

From: Giovanni P. Deretta (gpderetta_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-06 23:50:27

Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

I do not understand exactly what you are asking? Could you eleaborate?

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Giovanni P. Deretta