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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [asio] SSL async_shutdown() never finishes if called when async_read_some() is in progress
From: Alexander D. (alexdems_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-04-06 13:11:21


>> The only solution I can think of would be to cancel the read operation, but there's no portable way in asio to do this.
>
> sock.next_layer().cancel();
>
>?

Per ASIO Reference:

"Calls to cancel() will always fail with boost::asio::error::operation_not_supported when run on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and earlier versions of Windows, unless BOOST_ASIO_ENABLE_CANCELIO is defined. However, the CancelIo function has two issues that should be considered before enabling its use:
..."

which renders cancel() non-portable.


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