On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:12:50 +0100, rohini chandra pallapothu
[...]Now, I want to use some other IPC technique other than boost message queues due to the above reason. So I thought of checking if pipe communication is possible between two unrelated processes using boost.
Could you please help me if you have more information regarding this.
I think the fastest solution for you is to copy&paste the code from the stream behavior named_pipe in Boost.Process. One process needs to call mkfifo() and open() and the other process only open(). If you set the O_NONBLOCK flag with fcntl() you can even use asynchronous I/O with Boost.Asio (see boost::asio::posix::stream_descriptor). It's not a Boost solution but copying and adapting the code shouldn't take longer than a few minutes. :) Boris
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