Cliff Green wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:21:09 -0700 "Sohail Somani" <s.somani@fincad.com> wrote:
My colleague just showed me a very concise example of how he created a service that can be registered with Windows. The same code works for Unix as well.
I don't think there are any boost libraries that can do this yet.
Agreed, and as I noted there's other components of POCO that are not (yet) in Boost (in particular, XML parsers). So what about someone submitting a "service" library for Boost? (I'm not sure what the definition of a service is - I'm a little bit familiar with Windows services, and the same for Unix daemons, but not sure what the higher-level abstraction for both would be, since the details of both OS facilities have some significant differences.)
This is something that could be part of boost.process which is an SOC project in the works now: https://boost-consulting.com:8443/trac/soc/wiki/process Julio and I have at least discussed that this could either be part or an extension of the core library -- see the bottom of: https://boost-consulting.com:8443/trac/soc/wiki/process/DesignThoughts/Discu... If you really want to see this functionality it would be good to say so. Jeff