On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 17:14, Oliver Kowalke <k-oli@gmx.de> wrote:
About the initial question, I've always thought that Boost.Process would
provide : 1. A cross-platform way to manipulate processes (child processes) including managing their "life-time".
'Managing life-time' means stop, continue, kill children?
Yes.
2. Maybe some platform-specific utilites.
3. Easy Inter-process communication "would be cool" but as there is another library providing this feature, is not a show stopper for me.
boost.asio/boost.interprocess
Yes, in fact I'll use another high-level network library (for unrelated reasons) in addition to interprocess (because I tried with an old version of boost.process and already have the communication code, but boost.process was buggy few years ago).