On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Stefano Delli Ponti <stefano.delliponti@gmail.com> wrote:
Boris wrote:
I stumbled over Boost.Process some months ago. The library was created as a Google Summer of Code project in 2006 (see http://www.netbsd.org/~jmmv/process/). As I needed the functionality provided by this library and didn't manage to contact the author I went through the code myself to tidy it up, fix various bugs, convert the documentation to DocBook etc.
Hello Boris,
I am very interested in this library and I have always thought it was an important missing piece in boost. I'm happy that you have taken over and revived the project.
I can organize some tests on a POSIX platform.
Regards, Stefano
I also added one minor but important improvement: With Boost.Asio 1.1 it's now possible to use asynchronous I/O (on Windows the macro BOOST_PROCESS_WINDOWS_USE_NAMED_PIPE must be defined as on Windows only named pipes support asynchronous I/O).
I've been using the library myself only on Windows so far where it seems to work fine. I didn't make any tests yet on a POSIX platform. I didn't update the documentation yet much either. And I have no idea how to integrate the samples and test programs into Boost.Build (there are two Jamfiles but don't be surprised if they don't work :).
As this library wasn't touched for nearly 2 years I don't know if there is any interest at all. As I had tidied up the code now anyway for my own purposes I provide a new snapshot for the community. You can find everything (including a link to download version 0.2) here: http://www.highscore.de/boost/process/
Boris
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I've been using boost.process for quite some time. I've made some hefty modifications to the posix parts to allow ptraceing of child processes, the code is available here: http://skotty.coffeebuzzin.com/browser/trunk/boost I could also do some posix testing if needed. Cheers, Chris