Detaching a native socket from Boost.ASIO's socket class

Question

Is it possible to detach a native socket from Boost.ASIO\'s socket class? If so, how can it be done? I can\'t seem to find anything obvious in the documentation.

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Answer 1

Answering my own question.

Windows has a WSADuplicateSocket function, which can be used to duplicate the native socket. The underlying socket will remain open until all descriptors for this socket are deallocated.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741565(VS.85).aspx