Blocking

Description

A Device is Blocking if a read request never produces fewer characters than requested except at end-of-stream, and if a write request never consumes fewer characters than requested under any circumstances. All Devices currently provided with the Iostreams library are Blocking. Limited support for non-Blocking Devices has been provided as a foundation for future more comprehensive support of asynchronous and non-blocking i/o.

The Blocking concept does not apply to filters. Instead, filters are required to be blocking-preserving, which means that

Unlike other Iostreams library concepts, Blocking is not associated with any category tag. In the future, a non_blocking_tag may be introduced.

Refinement of

Device.

Associated Types

Same as Device.

Valid Expressions / Semantics

Valid expressions are the same as Device. The additional semantic requirements are described informally above.