[Boost-users] Why is basic_stream_socket::get_io_service not const?

Subject: [Boost-users] Why is basic_stream_socket::get_io_service not const?
From: Christopher Yeleighton (giecrilj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-30 03:42:51

According to the documentation [1], the member function get_io_service has the
following synopsis:

boost::asio::io_service & get_io_service();

Why is this function not constant?  What does it change within the socket?

[1]
<URL:http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/basic_stream_socket/get_io_service.html>