Re: Can boost.asio read/write io of files asynchronously?

From: Richard Hodges (hodges.r_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-08-31 14:49:59

On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 15:01, lampahome via Boost-users <
boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I haven't tried any of these methods, but it does provide the
>> posix::stream_descriptor and windows::{stream,random_access}_handle
>> classes which should be able to operate on native files.  (You'll have
>> to use a native OS-level function to open the handle/descriptor for the
>> file and pass ownership to the ASIO object; they lack means to do the
>> opening itself.)
>>
>
> Thank u.
> That gives me a direction. The only sad thing is very little
> document/examples described about this API of boost.asio .
>

This is a common complaint of Asio.

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