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Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-users] Subject: Formal Review of Proposed Boost.Process library starts tomorrow
From: Rob Riggs (rob_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-22 23:10:19
On 02/07/2011 12:30 PM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> On 07/02/2011 19:22, Steven Watanabe wrote:
>
>> * There are pistream and postream. What about
>> piostream for completeness.
>
> Pipes are either read-only or write-only; there could however be a
> mechanism to aggregate two pipes into a single iostream.
>
I know that this is a rather late reply, but socketpair() is a common
mechanism for constructing bi-directional pipes between processes (at
least on Unix). I don't think it is necessary to hold up the release of
this library, but Steven's suggestion certainly has merit.
Rob
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