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

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-07 00:16:17

On 2/7/06, Giovanni P. Deretta <gpderetta_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> Now we agree :) Yes, it is useful behaviour and probably should be
> supported directly by asio. But it should not be  the default or at
> least the user should have the option.

Perfect!

> Along side the current non-copyable (but maybe movable) stream_socket
> asio could provide a stream_socket_ptr that would behave as if it were a
> shared_ptr to a stream_socket (that is, pointer semantics), but it
> wouldn't actually allocate a stream_socket (similar to the way an
> optional looks like a pointer but actualy is stack based).

It is nice, but it wouldnt need to behave like a pointer,
syntactically speaking. It should have the same interface as the
proper stream_socket, IMO. Only the copying being different.

> Would it work for you? I'haven't really thought much about it, so I'm
> certanly missing something.

I think it would.

> --
> Giovanni P. Deretta

best regards,
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Felipe Magno de Almeida