...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Close the socket.
void close();
This function is used to close the socket. Any asynchronous send, receive or connect operations will be cancelled immediately, and will complete with the boost::asio::error::operation_aborted error.
Thrown on failure.
For portable behaviour with respect to graceful closure of a connected socket, call shutdown() before closing the socket.