By the way, note that in the latest ASIO (boost 1.37.0) the synchronous operations are thread safe: http://beta.boost.org/users/news/version_1_37_0 Updated Libraries Asio: * Synchronous read, write, accept and connect operations are now thread safe (meaning that it is now permitted to perform concurrent synchronous operations on an individual socket, if supported by the OS).
Accessing the same socket object from different threads is unsafe:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/doc/html/boost_asio/reference/ip__tcp/s... "Thread Safety Distinct objects: Safe. Shared objects: Unsafe. "
Does this mean that I can still use the socket object from different threads if I use some kind of locking method to make sure that only one thread at a time uses the socket?