On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Boris Schaeling <boris@highscore.de> wrote:
I'd also prefer a guaranteed cleanup. But it's not clear how to do this with a RAII type on POSIX (unless you have an idea? :).
I don't know much about POSIX so I cannot say anything about that at the moment. If the example you provide in the tutorial is representative of the work necessary to request cleanup on posix, then I don't see how putting it as a constructor policy wouldn't work? Something like (assuming the design I suggested and assuming the cleanup would be optional- would it be?): child_process cp( cmd_line("test --foo /bar"), auto_cleanup() ); The work would then be done in the constructor with posix implementation, in destructor in windows. I'll take a look at POSIX documentation for processes, see if I can help you with that. I think you certainly intuitively know some problems I don't see, because of your experience with boost process. Joel Lamotte