Re: [Boost-users] problem with boost io_service

From: Boris (boriss_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-30 18:47:02

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:41:52 +0200, lakers fan <lakersfan74_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>       I have an application in which I created an io_service object in  
> the main thread of the application. Then I created a listener object  
> (listener socket class), this class creates a new worker thread and  
> waits for incoming messages. First I created listener socket in the  
> context of the main thread and called async_receive_from() so that  
> io_service has something to work,  and then I called io_service.run() in  
> the worker thread. But the run() returned immediately. So I tried  
> creating the socket in the worker thread and called  
> async_receive_from()  and then called io_service.run(). Again run()  
> returned immeidately with boost::system::error_code's m_val = 0.
> Can someone point me in the right direction? i m kind of clueless..

Is it possible that your handler which you passed to async_receive_from()  
was called? If you don't call async_receive_from() then again from your  
handler the io_service has no work to do anymore (and run() returns).

Boris