Re: [boost] Boost.Process progress

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Process progress
From: Daniel Larimer (dlarimer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-02 09:53:27

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Boris Schaeling <boris_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> There haven't been much news on Boost.Process lately which doesn't mean
> though that nothing is happening. I've been working on a Boost.Asio
> extension which can be used to wait asynchronously for Windows processes -
> see https://github.com/**BorisSchaeling/asio
>.

> This was already supported by Boost.Process 0.4 but the implementation was
> heavily criticized. The code has been moved now to Boost.Asio (or at least I
> hope it will - I'm in contact with Chris :) and provides a new Windows I/O
> object called object_handle. The implementation is now based on the Windows
> function RegisterWaitForSingleObject(). The new I/O object can not only be
> used to wait for processes. It can also be used to wait for events, mutexes,
> semaphores etc. As it's not process-related anymore, it makes sense to ship
> the code with Boost.Asio (where we have already similar Windows I/O objects
> called random_access_handle and stream_handle - object_handle fits in
> nicely).
>
>    Just curious, are these kinds of features cross platform?

> Once I'm done with this, a major critical point should have been resolved.
> I'll go back then to Boost.Process code and help Jeff to finish
> https://github.com/JeffFlinn/**boost-process
>.
> I'm not sure how far we are there. But as I don't remember any major
> obstacles, I'm confident that there are none. :)
>
> Boris
>
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