Boost C++ ASIO Networking

Applications Programming
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Hi,

Based on the following example in the Boost C++ website:
www. boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/boost_asio/example/echo/async_tcp_echo_server.cpp]doc/html/boost_asio/example/echo/async_tcp_echo_server.cpp

I tried to create a similar TCP server that waits to accept a client connection and once connected, listens to incoming data from the client.

In the given example:

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  try
  {
    if (argc != 2)
    {
      std::cerr << "Usage: async_tcp_echo_server <port>\n";
      return 1;
    }

    boost::asio::io_service io_service;

    using namespace std; // For atoi.
    server s(io_service, atoi(argv[1]));

    io_service.run();
  }
  catch (std::exception& e)
  {
    std::cerr << "Exception: " << e.what() << "\n";
  }

  return 0;
}

However, the io_service.run() seems to run infinitely. How do I signal this run() to stop? Or run at certain time interval so that I can still have other tasks running?

:confused: