Re: [boost] asio socket connection state

From: christopher baus (christopher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-12 17:33:39

> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, christopher baus wrote:
>
>> Also when a connection is closed by a peer during a read operation what
>> error should be expected?
>>
>> eof, not_connected, fault, operation_aborted all seem reasonable.
>
> For a TCP socket, I would expect it to return eof, since that is how TCP
> sockets work.

I tested it on Windows and it does indeed return eof.  It might be worth
while to document this with the read functions.