posix_chat_client.cpp does not work on mac os x

[kyle.tarplee@…]

I am using Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), macbook pro and this example seems to be broken.

when I run

./chat_server 12345

and in a different terminal on the same machine run

./posix_chat_client localhost 12345

the client exits immediately (instead of accepting input to send to the server which echos is back).

the chat_client works fine however. Note that the source is in boost/libs/asio/examples/chat

In similar code I get the error "Operation not supported"

This same code works on linux (ubuntu 4.3.2) just fine. Same build flags.

[Dean Michael Berris]

This is expected since Mac OS X doesn't explicitly support standard posix stream descriptors that support asynchronous IO IIUC. Does the example still compile now that the define guards have been put into the example?

[anonymous]

Actually the with snow leopard (mac os 10.6) my use case works now. I presume posix_chat_client.cpp will work as well. So I guess it was a mac os 10.5 issue that has been resolved.

[chris_kohlhoff]

Reopening, because at some point I do want to make this work with older versions of Mac OS X.