Re: [boost] Asynchronous Boost.Iostreams with Boost.Asio

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-07 09:23:08

Boris wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:40:48 +0200, Sebastian Redl  
> <sebastian.redl_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   
>> The only way to simulate asynchronous I/O using blocking calls is to use
>> a separate thread for every I/O object.
>>     
>
> This doesn't work either as you can't interrupt the blocking call if you  
> want to close the stream.
>   
You can kill the thread. Not exactly portable, and will probably leak 
resources, though.

Sebastian