[Boost-users] IOService and socket CAN under Linux

Subject: [Boost-users] IOService and socket CAN under Linux
From: Andreas Wehrmann (a.wehrmann_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-10 10:28:14

Hello!

I'm currently working with socket CAN under Linux 2.6.25 and was wondering
how I can use these with the very handy boost ioservice facility.
Socket CAN is simply a raw socket created like this: socket(PF_CAN, 
SOCK_RAW, CAN_RAW);

Does someone maybe already have a socket CAN implementation for Boost?
Is there a way I can add a socket descriptor to an IOService and get a 
callback when
the socket becomes readable, so that I can read data from the socket?
The peculiarity about raw CAN sockets is,
that when they become readable, you don't read the payload
of the received CAN frame(s) but a struct that represents the received 
CAN frame.
So it behaves like a datagram socket: You only read full frames.
What I actually need is a notification mechanism using the IOService 
facility.

Best regards,
Andreas