Hi, What is the status of boost:process, when looking on internet you can find different version that are more or less compatible. Not an ideal situation and I am a bit surprised that this lib doesn't get more love from c++ dev. Anyway after a long time coding in easier language I decided to do a small project under linux that consists in a tcp server running on linux that start some process initiated by a client and sends the output. So I have downaloaded the most "official" version I could find here http://www.highscore.de/boost/process/ and I tried the following code : #include <cassert> #include <iostream> #include <map> #include <string> #include <sstream> #include <vector> #include <boost/asio.hpp> #include <boost/enable_shared_from_this.hpp> #include <boost/process.hpp> namespace asio = boost::asio; namespace bp = boost::process; using asio::ip::tcp; bp::child start_child() { std::string exec = boost::process::find_executable_in_path("dpkg"); std::vector<std::string> args; args.push_back("-l"); bp::context ctx; ctx.stderr_behavior = bp::capture_stream(); return bp::launch(exec, args, ctx); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { std::string value; bp::child c = start_child(); bp::pistream &is = c.get_stderr(); std::string line; while (std::getline(is, line)) { value += line + "\r\n"; } c.wait(); std::cout << "OUTPUT: " << value << std::endl; return 0; } My first question is how can I merge the stderr with stdout because some commands use stdout and some others stderr ? My second question is : why the code above doesn't work properly and doesn't handle the arguments I am passing ? Indeed when I run the code I get the following output : OUTPUT: dpkg: error: need an action option it means that the -l is not taken in consideration. Thanks for any help