Re: [Boost-users] Too many EOF's using boost::asio

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Too many EOF's using boost::asio
From: Scott Mueller (smueller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-13 15:45:18

Sorry for getting to this so late...

-----Original Message-----
From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Lars Viklund
Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2013 8:01 AM
To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Too many EOF's using boost::asio

>This problem has cropped up in the #boost channel as a hidden problem taking us many days to find, auditing pretty much every single piece of the user code, >before eventually stumbling over the bug report.

>In any way, it's a problem that needs to be solved. If Asio does things incorrectly, it doesn't matter how fast it manages to does it.

>If I read the two bug reports right, the pre-1.54 way was stable-and-boring-but-works, and the attempted improvements seem to have gone wrong. In my eyes, it's >either for the Asio people to revert to the known-good way of 1.53, or fix up their new implementation to work in reality.

There's also a very simple patch to try attached to https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8933 . We've since found that 8967 has the same root cause.

Best regards,

M. Scott Mueller