On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:44:20 +0200, Chris Fairles <chris.fairles@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]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
Chris, I've merged the code in the sandbox with my Boost.Process version 0.2. I'm going now through your POSIX-specific modifications. In boost/process/detail/pipe.hpp you've added a call to ::fcntl to make a pipe non-blocking. Is this something you needed for your own application or which you think should be part of an official Boost.Process library (if it ever is reviewed and accepted)? I see that the macro USE_NONBLOCKING_READ_PIPE needs be defined. But I wonder if it's not better to provide direct access to a pipe to the library user so he can set all kind of options himself? Same question about ptrace and the various rlimit variables which were added to boost/process/detail/posix_ops.hpp - application-specific (added because you need them in your application) or in your opinion useful for all Boost.Process users? I will need some more days before I can release another Boost.Process version as the test programs and documentation still need to be updated. Boris