Re: [boost] Any interest in iostream-like pipe?

From: Larry Evans (jcampbell3_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-11 08:04:52

Alexander Nasonov wrote:

[snip]

> The library doesn't use OS pipes. Pipe support is implemented by hand with a 
> help of Boost.Threads. Synchronization occurs only in underflow, overflow, 
> sync, open and close functions which means fast I/O.
> The library also has two capacity models: limited and unlimited. In the 
> former case, if writer goes ahead of a reader it stops and waits; in the 
> latter case, the writer always allocates new block of memory when overflow 
> occurs.

The following post:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/boost/1593756

indicates there's some interest in thread-safe access to ostreams at
least.