Re: [Boost-users] Networking TS + Beast, NEW Tutorials, Read this to learn std::net !!!

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Networking TS + Beast, NEW Tutorials, Read this to learn std::net !!!
From: Cristian Morales Vega (cristian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-15 09:45:10

On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 16:49, Vinnie Falco via Boost-users
<boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> There was a recent paper in Kona, P1269R0 ("Three Years with the
> Networking TS")  about difficulty of implementing timeouts. To address
> this, Beast now has a stream class which implements configurable
> timeouts for you, and callers no longer have to fiddle with timers
> manually anymore. Everything "Just Works." It achieves the P1269R0
> author's goal of having timeouts "built-in to asynchronous
> operations", but in a way that fits in with the design of the TS:
>
> <https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/master/libs/beast/doc/html/beast/using_io/timeouts.html>

I have not used the synchronous API at all. But section 3.1 of P1269R0
seems to make a good point about the lack of timeouts in synchronous
calls, doesn't it?
beast::basic_stream makes using timeouts in the async API way simpler,
but is the sync API really basically unusable because of the lack of
timeouts thing?