Performing a stream-based I/O
The concepts of a stream and stream-based I/O are powerful in their expressiveness and elegance when used properly. Sometimes, most of the application's source code consists of stream-based I/O operations. The source code readability and maintainability of such an application would be increased if network communication modules were implemented by means of stream-based operations as well.
Fortunately, Boost.Asio provides tools that allow us to implement inter-process communication in a stream-based fashion. In this recipe, we will see how to use them.
How to do it…
The Boost.Asio library contains the asio::ip::tcp::iostream wrapper class that provides an I/O stream-like interface to the TCP socket objects, which allows ...
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