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Rationale

The Boost.Asio library is intended for programmers using C++ for systems programming, where access to operating system functionality such as networking is often required. In particular, Boost.Asio attempts to address the following goals:

Although the current incarnation of Boost.Asio focuses primarily on networking, its concepts of asynchronous I/O can be extended to include other operating system resources such as files.


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