Re: [Boost-users] Boost Asio SSL can't receive without sending

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost Asio SSL can't receive without sending
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-08-22 19:45:01

On 23/08/2016 01:52, Richard Hodges wrote:
> once io_service::run() returns, the io_service will be in the stopped()
> state. This happens when there are no remaining async operations waiting
> to complete on it. In a multi-threaded environment you must keep the
> io_service running by creating an io_service::work object against it.
> Then when you want to stop your communications loop, you would call
> op_service::stop() and join the threads.

Actually that's not strictly true.  As long as any operation or handler 
is pending, the io_service won't stop on its own.  So if you ensure that 
your async_read handler always starts another async_read (and if the 
socket disconnects you immediately reconnect it), then you don't need 
io_service::work; you only need that if there can be "dead times" when 
no async operation is pending.

It's usually simpler to use it than not to, though.