[/ / Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Christopher M. Kohlhoff (chris at kohlhoff dot com) / / Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying / file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) /] [section:handler_tracking Handler Tracking] To aid in debugging asynchronous programs, Asio provides support for handler tracking. When enabled by defining `ASIO_ENABLE_HANDLER_TRACKING`, Asio writes debugging output to the standard error stream. The output records asynchronous operations and the relationships between their handlers. [teletype] This feature is useful when debugging and you need to know how your asynchronous operations are chained together, or what the pending asynchronous operations are. As an illustration, here is the output when you run the HTTP Server example, handle a single request, then shut down via Ctrl+C: @asio|1298160085.070638|0*1|signal_set@0x7fff50528f40.async_wait @asio|1298160085.070888|0*2|socket@0x7fff50528f60.async_accept @asio|1298160085.070913|0|resolver@0x7fff50528e28.cancel @asio|1298160118.075438|>2|ec=asio.system:0 @asio|1298160118.075472|2*3|socket@0xb39048.async_receive @asio|1298160118.075507|2*4|socket@0x7fff50528f60.async_accept @asio|1298160118.075527|<2| @asio|1298160118.075540|>3|ec=asio.system:0,bytes_transferred=122 @asio|1298160118.075731|3*5|socket@0xb39048.async_send @asio|1298160118.075778|<3| @asio|1298160118.075793|>5|ec=asio.system:0,bytes_transferred=156 @asio|1298160118.075831|5|socket@0xb39048.close @asio|1298160118.075855|<5| @asio|1298160122.827317|>1|ec=asio.system:0,signal_number=2 @asio|1298160122.827333|1|socket@0x7fff50528f60.close @asio|1298160122.827359|<1| @asio|1298160122.827370|>4|ec=asio.system:125 @asio|1298160122.827378|<4| @asio|1298160122.827394|0|signal_set@0x7fff50528f40.cancel Each line is of the form: ||| The `` is always `@asio`, and is used to identify and extract the handler tracking messages from the program output. The `` is seconds and microseconds from 1 Jan 1970 UTC. The `` takes one of the following forms: [variablelist [ [>n] [The program entered the handler number `n`. The `` shows the arguments to the handler.] ] [ [` shows what asynchronous operation was started.] ] [ [n] [The handler number n performed some other operation. The `` shows what function was called. Currently only `close()` and `cancel()` operations are logged, as these may affect the state of pending asynchronous operations.] ] ] Where the `` shows a synchronous or asynchronous operation, the format is `@.`. For handler entry, it shows a comma-separated list of arguments and their values. As shown above, Each handler is assigned a numeric identifier. Where the handler tracking output shows a handler number of 0, it means that the action was performed outside of any handler. [heading Visual Representations] The handler tracking output may be post-processed using the included [^handlerviz.pl] tool to create a visual representation of the handlers (requires the GraphViz tool [^dot]). [c++] [endsect]