Question

Just wondered if someone could point me some simple code which shows multi threaded boost::tcp::socket that is multi threaded that does not work off the same socket that is created by the parent I.E.

while (TRUE){
    create server
    create shared_ptr io_service
    create shared_ptr socket
    create acceptor 
    create endpoint

    bind to ip and port
    listen
    accept(bind etc)
    create thread pool with function passing the ONE socket

    //do work in thread close the socket
}

Answer 1

I have found the root cause of my problem it was the fact that I did not realise that the more than one socket could bind to the same port using boost

acceptor->set_option( boost::asio::ip::tcp::acceptor::reuse_address( true ) );

which has helped me a lot.