Re: [Boost-users] asio: selective cancellation of reads/writes

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] asio: selective cancellation of reads/writes
From: Maxim Yanchenko (maximyanchenko_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-12 21:00:35

Alexander Fritze <alex <at> croczilla.com> writes:

> In asio, if I have a socket with pending asynchronous reads and  
> writes, is there a way to selectively cancel only the reads or only  
> the writes? All I can find is basic_stream_socket::cancel() which  
> closes *all* pending operations on the socket.

Is socket::shutdown() what you're looking for?

http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/basic_socket/shutdown.html

However, I'm not sure if it cancels all corresponding pending operations or just
puts them on hold.