Am 14.02.2011 19:19, schrieb Klaim - Joël Lamotte:
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.
This was what I was requesting too but I got no answer from Boris. At least on POSIX we need a framework which deals with sending signals and async. handling of delivered signals (not only SIGCHLD). Because we have no conclusion how this should be handled by boost.process in this review - I suggest that this facility should be implemented by another library. boost.process could provide code for waiting synchronously on a child process (waitpid) - for this purpose the sync. wait could be done in a separate thread and the result will be transfered via a future == async. waiting on child process.