Re: [Boost-users] Boost::asio - how to detect if a remote socketsclient has disconnected

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Alex Black wrote:

Would doing synchronous writes (instead of asycnchronous writes) make any difference?

No. It still needs to fill up the TCP send buffer before it even considers raising any sort of error. If one end of the connection silently drops off, the only reliable way to find out is to attempt a read. Jon