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          <a class="indexterm" name="boost_asio.indexterm.strand.post"></a> 
Request the strand to invoke
          the given function object.
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<pre class="programlisting">template&lt;
    typename Function,
    typename Allocator&gt;
void post(
    Function &amp;&amp; f,
    const Allocator &amp; a) const;
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          This function is used to ask the executor to execute the given function
          object. The function object will never be executed inside this function.
          Instead, it will be scheduled by the underlying executor's defer function.
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                The function object to be called. The executor will make a copy of
                the handler object as required. The function signature of the function
                object must be:
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                An allocator that may be used by the executor to allocate the internal
                storage needed for function invocation.
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