Re: [Boost-users] *NIX: Boost ASIO and file descriptor limits

On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:57:57 +0200, Sebastian Hauer wrote:

Hello Boris,

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Boris wrote:

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Boost.Process might help you: http://www.highscore.de/boost/process/

boost.process looks very promising, just wondering are there plans to include it with boost 1.37.

There was no progress really for two years. I picked it up this year as I needed something similar for my own purposes. The code has been thoroughly tested to make sure that the current code works reliably (as I need something reliable :). What I don't know if the current library is not too small for a Boost library. For example you can only access the current process and child processes but no other processes running. I don't know where to draw a line and what else should really be put in before it becomes an official Boost library? In the moment I'm working on improving support for asynchronous I/O (somehow integrationg Boost.Process with Boost.Asio). I got another mail from someone who thinks about using Boost.Process to build something like Expect (see http://expect.nist.gov/). Maybe I'll get some ideas from him to better understand if the current library is useful enough to become an official Boost library. And to be fair there is also another draft of a process library: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/180310 Boris