Re: [Boost-users] [ASIO] permanently blocked io_service.run()

From: Jose Martinez (jmartine_1026_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-24 12:41:23

Igor,

Thanks a lot.  I figured they must be a way to do it; that work class slipped by me unnoticed on the reference page.  It seems like they thought of everything.

thanks

> My question is how do I keep the thread's
io_service.run() from returning right away, since there will be no work
for the io_service.run() to do until the server lines up a new
connection for the thread to handle? 

Use asio::io_service::work class: 
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/io_service__work.html 
Look at the following example for details: 
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/boost_asio/example/http/server2/io_service_pool.cpp 
 jose
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