Re: [boost] asio library

Subject: Re: [boost] asio library
From: Peter Foelsche (peter_foelsche_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-27 15:45:35

"Daniel Pfeifer" <daniel_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
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>> The number of use cases is limited.
>> Here are some of them:
>>
>> * connect to a well known address (client)
>> * bind to a well known address -- create listening socket (server)
>
> So what do you propose? An asynchronous constructor for socket?

Nope I did not propose anything like this.
For the two use-cases I mentioned, we would need two separate classes
-- with a constructor and destructor and a method to return the created 
file-descriptor/socket-handle.