RE: [boost] Proposal: Library to manage processes

From: Hartmut Kaiser (HartmutKaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-20 13:23:36

Merino Vidal wrote:

> a while ago, I started to write a little utility that aims to 
> interact with multiple VCS systems.  I chose C++ (and I don't 
> regret that decision at all), so I had to create multiple 
> classes to interact with system internals and keep the "real" 
> application code clean from such OS-specific calls.
> 
> A few days ago, I decided to switch to use Boost in that 
> project, basically because I was interested in the Filesystem 
> library.  Doing so, I have been able to remove some of my 
> custom classes that dealt with files and directories (and 
> which were quite ugly).  Furthermore, this change has allowed 
> me to use many other Boost goodies.
> 
> Among the classes I wrote, there are some that provide an 
> abstraction layer to launch other (child) processes.  Once 
> the process is launched, the code can access its standard 
> input/output/error streams by using the standard iostreams framework.
> 
> I'm willing to reorganize (well, mostly rewrite from scratch) 
> such process-management classes to follow the Boost policies, 
> aiming for future integration in Boost.
> 
> But, before I start to do so, I would like to know if such 
> library will be adequate to be integrated and/or if there is 
> interest in it.
> FWIW, I've searched the mailing lists and found some people 
> that said that they missed this functionality in Boost.

I'm definitely interested.

Regards Hartmut