[boost] Re: Re: Socket errors

From: Hugo Duncan (hugoduncan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-25 18:34:41

Hamish,

On 25 Nov 2002 17:17:41 +0000, Hamish Mackenzie <hamish_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 15:43, Hugo Duncan wrote:
> >  A write on an ssl stream can
> > > block attempting to read from the underlying socket (and vice-versa).
> > 
> > Not sure I fully understand this.  Could you elaborate please.
> > is want_read equivalent to "Would Block On Write" ?
> 
> want_read indicates that the call is blocking because there is no data
> to read from the socket at present.  In the case of an ssl socket this
> could be returned from recv or send.  want_read and want_write could
> also be returned from ssl connect.

presumably that should be
"want_read indicates that the call is blocking because there is data
to read from the socket at present" without the negative?

Do you have a reference for ssl connect somewhere - I am struggling with this...

Hugo