Re: [Boost-users] CreateProcess

Hello, 2010/9/23 Boris Schaeling :

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:53:47 +0200, TONGARI wrote:

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2010/9/23 Klaim

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Boost.Process might be what you need. It's still in working but almost finished, you can try it : http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/SOC/2010/process/ http://www.highscore.de/boost/gsoc2010/process.zip

Boost.Process is heavily discussed on the developer mailing list (since 15 August) and was updated a few times. The documentation was not updated though (this will be done once discussions end and the API is stable again; otherwise the documentation would need to be updated all the time, too). It looks like we are nearly there though (there was another major update on Sunday - now only some details are left and need to be changed). Here's the thread if you are interested (and have lots of time ;): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/207594

That's great news! A lot of work has been done since already a few years. I have one comment (though did not read the whole dev thread!) pistream v/s postream: I would use different names for those. Usually, we call those streams standard input and output. I would say the stdin of the child should be called pistream, even from the parent's point of view. Another solution would be to call those "source" and "sink", such as psrcstream and psinkstream. Best regards, -- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net/