There is a class in the Boost C++ library that provides the ability to conduct a blocking or asynchronous wait for a timer until it expires, known as the deadline timer. A deadline timer indicates one of two states: expired or not expired.
Here, we are going to create a timer that will expire in 10 seconds. Let us take a look at the following code:
/* timer.cpp */
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
#include <boost/thread.hpp>
#include <boost/thread/mutex.hpp>
#include <boost/bind.hpp>
#include <iostream>
boost::mutex global_stream_lock;
void WorkerThread(boost::shared_ptr<boost::asio::io_service> iosvc, int counter) {
global_stream_lock.lock();
std::cout << "Thread " << counter << " Start.\n";
global_stream_lock.unlock();
while(true) {
try {
boost::system::error_code ec;
iosvc->run(ec);
if(ec) {
global_stream_lock...