The ioxx library provides primitives for asynchronous I/O in C++. That kind of thing is typically useful for people who would like to implement a highly concurrent network service, i.e. an application that performs input/output simultaneously on a great number of sockets. The library's main components are a socket event dispatcher, a time event dispatcher, and an asynchronous DNS resolver. There is also a class interface to socket programming that offers those wonders of modern C++ such as exception-style error reporting, transparent resource management, type-safety, and support for custom memory allocation strategies. Ioxx is thread-safe in the sense that it is fully re-entrant. The code runs on any POSIX-compliant operating system, most notably Linux, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, and NT.
