Re: [Boost-users] [Asio]What's the behavior of socket.async_write()after socket.close() is called?

You would destroy the socket. Delete'ing it,

So it would be always necessary to store a ptr to a socket? Then delete the socket, which was passed by reference to async_read()? Doesn't sound good, does it?

or using a boost::optional.

But it's not optional, according to its semantics...