Re: [Boost-users] [ASIO] Thread safety of socket.write_some & socket.read_some

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [ASIO] Thread safety of socket.write_some & socket.read_some
From: James12 (james791d_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-29 10:36:21

Igor R wrote:
> 
> 
>> Accessing the same socket object from different threads is unsafe:
> 
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/ip__tcp/socket.html
>> "Thread Safety
>> Distinct objects: Safe.
>> Shared objects: Unsafe. "
> 

Hi Igor and thanks for your reply.

I am sorry for not reading the documentation well enough :-)

Does this mean that I can still use the socket object from different threads
if I use some kind of locking method to make sure that only one thread at a
time uses the socket?

Thanks,
James

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