On Fri, August 18, 2006 12:15 pm, JOAQUIN LOPEZ MU?Z wrote:
1. The lib provides functionality to spawn child processes and examine them through launcher and child classes, respectively. Yet, it seems to lack functionality to examine the *current* process. In particular, it looks like one cannot get the handle_type of the current process (Win32:GetCurrentProcessID) in a manner compatible with child::get_handle.
I agree. What I would also like to see is a good method of manipulating the environment variables of the current process. Sure, there's getenv(), but it's not exactly a great interface, and there is no portable way of setting one. But basically, when I pass environment variables to a child, I might want to make them a modified version of the current environment, and for that I'd expect the library to provide a way to access current variables.
2. Would it be safe to guarantee that handle_type is an integral type? It is so at least for POSIX and Win32. This would allow the programmer to output handle_type's to std::ostreams's (for tracing purposes, for instance) and to use handle_type's in a number of scenarios, vg to store them in STL data structures.
Win32's HANDLE is a pointer type. Does that count as integral? Excellent work on the library, all in all. Sebastian Redl