Re: [Boost-users] AsIO daytime example needs terminate code

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] AsIO daytime example needs terminate code
From: Boris Schaeling (boris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-28 12:54:19

On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:23:43 +0200, Christopher Yeleighton  
<giecrilj_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> [...]Of course this works for the synchronous server where there is an  
> explicit loop;
> an asynchronous server needs to call { service->stop(); }  My experiment  
> shows
> that it is does not produce any visible failure under SuSE; however, it  
> is not
> clear whether io_service::stop can be called from within a signal  
> handler.

It's not safe to call io_service::stop in a signal handler (io_service is  
thread-safe; there are Pthread functions called in io_service::stop which  
are not safe to call in signal handlers).

Boris