Was it anonymous or named pipes you were thinking of? Anonymous pipes in particular look like easy pickings on both UNIX and Win32, so I could add them once I get the TR2 proposal out of the way.
Both of them ;-) Ideally I would be able to attach an existing OS pipe handle as well so I could use it for reading output from std streams of a child process, i'm ignorant of the issues on unix like systems for this behaviour though. Currently I'm using sockets instead of pipes for local interprocess connections anyway so I can still use asio and can live with this for a while so I'm more than happy to wait until you have time;) I have been extremely impressed with asio so far, I'm in the process of rewriting a prototype application written in a more traditional threaded socket style and the simplification in design and implementation asio has brought have been immense, thanks for all your effort and good luck with tr2. cheers Martin -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006