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          Sometimes a program must be integrated with a third-party library that
          wants to perform the I/O operations itself. To facilitate this, Asio includes
          a null_buffers type that
          can be used with both read and write operations. A null_buffers
          operation doesn't return until the I/O object is "ready" to perform
          the operation.
        
As an example, to perform a non-blocking read something like the following may be used:
ip::tcp::socket socket(my_io_service); ... socket.non_blocking(true); ... socket.async_read_some(null_buffers(), read_handler); ... void read_handler(asio::error_code ec) { if (!ec) { std::vector<char> buf(socket.available()); socket.read_some(buffer(buf)); } }
These operations are supported for sockets on all platforms, and for the POSIX stream-oriented descriptor classes.
null_buffers, basic_socket::non_blocking(), basic_socket::native_non_blocking(), nonblocking example.