...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Inherited from basic_socket.
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. Note that, even if the function indicates an error, the underlying descriptor is closed.
For portable behaviour with respect to graceful closure of a connected
socket, call shutdown()
before closing the socket.