What's the difference between boost::io_service poll_one and run_one?

Question

io_service::poll_one Run the io_service object\'s event processing loop to execute one ready handler.

vs

io_ser

Answer 1

poll_one will return immediately (non-blocking) in case there is no event to process.

run_one will block the calling thread until one event is ready to process.

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