On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:29:04 +0500, Nat Goodspeed wrote:
On Feb 11, 2011, at 12:54 AM, "Ilya Sokolov" wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:01:56 +0500, Boris Schaeling wrote: [snip]
in my opinion the very different system interfaces are the main reason. If Boost.Process has platform-independent code only, developers will complain about the lack of flexibility.
Such library would be practically useless, so it's no-go.
Maybe I'm misreading what you said, but a library permitting a large suite of use cases that are meaningful cross-platform is just what I need. Again, I offer Python's subprocess module as proof by example that this is achievable.
subprocess.py is not a library that 'has platform-independent code only'. Look at preexec_fn, close_fds, startupinfo and creationflags parameters.
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