Re: [boost] Proposal: Library to manage processes

From: christopher diggins (cdiggins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-20 14:02:02

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84_at_[hidden]>
> 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.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Thanks in advance,

I am definitely very interested!

I would like to see this kind of library have good integration with 
Boost.Iostreams ( http://www.kangaroologic.com/iostreams/ ). I would also 
like to have operator overloading for redirection and piping operations, 
e.g.

ofstream f("test.cpp", ios_base::out | ios_base::trunc)
f << "#include <iostreams> int main() { std::cout << "hello world"; return 
0; }";
f.close();
boost::process("gcc test.cpp");
stringstream s;
boost::process("a.out") > s;
assert(s.str() == "hello world");

I am already using this syntax this with my own ootl::filters library (which 
redirects functions instead of processes), and I would gladly help integrate 
the code (and make it more boost-worthy) with your library. The current 
version of the code is at http://www.ootl.org/ootl/filters/filters.hpp.htm 
and some examples of how I use it are at 
http://www.ootl.org/ootl/filters/filter_tests.hpp.htm

Let me know if I can be of any help.

--
Christopher Diggins
Object Oriented Template Library (OOTL)
http://www.ootl.org