As soon as I created the socket, I called async_receive_from()  before io_service.run(). But run() returns immediately.
 
Thanks,
Bharani

> To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
> From: boriss@web.de
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:47:02 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] problem with boost io_service
>
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:41:52 +0200, lakers fan <lakersfan74@msn.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> > I have an application in which I created an io_service object in
> > the main thread of the application. Then I created a listener object
> > (listener socket class), this class creates a new worker thread and
> > waits for incoming messages. First I created listener socket in the
> > context of the main thread and called async_receive_from() so that
> > io_service has something to work, and then I called io_service.run() in
> > the worker thread. But the run() returned immediately. So I tried
> > creating the socket in the worker thread and called
> > async_receive_from() and then called io_service.run(). Again run()
> > returned immeidately with boost::system::error_code's m_val = 0.
> > Can someone point me in the right direction? i m kind of clueless..
>
> Is it possible that your handler which you passed to async_receive_from()
> was called? If you don't call async_receive_from() then again from your
> handler the io_service has no work to do anymore (and run() returns).
>
> Boris
>
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