On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:52:19 +0100, rohini chandra pallapothu <rohinichandrap@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]I have seen this documentation before. It says that two processes have to be related.
Rohini, you can download the latest draft of Boost.Process from http://www.highscore.de/boost/gsoc2010/process.zip. This version provides stream behaviors to configure streams of a child process. Among others a stream behavior for named pipes is provided. You could use it like this: named_pipe np("/tmp/mypipe"); stream_ends ends = np(input_stream); ... = ends.child.native(); ... = ends.parent.native(); The parameter passed to named_pipe::operator()() tells the stream behavior if the child handle should be configured for input or output. stream_ends is basically a std:pair<handle, handle> without requiring developers to remember what the child and the parent handle is. And the method handle::native() (and handle::release()) can be used to get the file descriptor on Unix and the HANDLE on Windows. HTH, Boris
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