Re: [Boost-users] [boost.asio / asio] leaving descriptor open in posix::stream_descriptor

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost.asio / asio] leaving descriptor open in posix::stream_descriptor
From: Daniel Mierswa (impulze_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-23 20:55:21

On 23.12.2010 00:22, Boris Schaeling wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:18:40 +0100, Daniel Mierswa 
> <impulze_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> I guess I have to roll my own service or something else but I
>> don't know where to start, I'm also sending this to the boost
>> mailing list.
> 
> I also would like to see a stream_descriptor which doesn't own the 
> file descriptor as right now you can't share ownership with other 
> objects (that's why I had to add a release() method to the handle 
> class in the latest Boost.Process draft as ownership must be passed 
> from handle to stream_descriptor).
> 
> Boris

I guess one could ::dup/::fcntl it to create a shared file descriptor
and give that to asio. What do you think of that?

-- 
Mierswa, Daniel
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