Q: console I/O?

[LegalizeAdulthood]

Is a facility provided for I/O with the console?

In my previous exploration with boost.asio I had to do a little bit of hackery that was Windows specific to get asynchronous I/O with the console.

It's been a while, but I don't think I needed to do anything special for serial ports other than the obvious device name differences between platforms.

[vinniefalco]

Eventually, whatever is available, we will offer :)

[vinniefalco]

In preparation for this feature we need to split io_stream into io_read_stream and io_write_stream and use virtual inheritance.