On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:15:25 +0200, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jeremy@jeremyms.com> wrote:
[...]Syntax for these basic operations might be:
context ctx;
ctx[bp::stdout] = some_fd; // Note: some_fd might be an open (filesystem) file, an open socket, etc.
This is a syntax I basically like. I'm not sure though whether it should be ctx.stream_behaviors[] instead of ctx[]? As for Windows users this interface shouldn't be more confusing than the current one I prefer it to the hardcoded member variables stdin_behavior, stdout_behavior and stderr_behavior.
[...]Although this syntax may seem a bit fancy, it would actually all involve very little code, I think.
I think for now I'll update the context class to support the syntax above but with existing stream behaviors. This should be a rather simple change hopefully everyone agrees with. Your ideas as interesting as they are open the box of Pandora and will start another huge discussion which I would prefer to engage in after we have managed to finish version 1.0 of Boost.Process (which is hopefully this year ;). Boris