...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Request the io_service
to invoke the given
handler and return immediately.
template< typename CompletionHandler> void-or-deduced post( CompletionHandler handler);
This function is used to ask the io_service
to execute the given
handler, but without allowing the io_service
to call the handler
from inside this function.
The io_service
guarantees that the handler will only be called in a thread in which the
run()
,
run_one()
,
poll()
or poll_one()
member functions is currently being invoked.
The handler to be called. The io_service
will make a copy
of the handler object as required. The function signature of the
handler must be:
void handler();
This function throws an exception only if:
asio_handler_allocate
function; or
throws an exception.