Re: [Boost-users] Interprocess support for Pipe

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Interprocess support for Pipe
From: Boris Schäling (boris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-12 06:43:34

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 11:25:13 +0200, Lloyd <lloydkl.tech_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Does boost interprocess support "pipe" like operations. That is if  
> process
> A writes something and when process B reads it, the memory content should
> be reset.
>
> If I use shared memory, it complicates things.

There is a create_pipe() function in what's usually called Boost.Process  
(not an official Boost library - work in progress for roughly 10 years ;)  
- see  
<http://www.highscore.de/boost/process0.5/boost/process/create_pipe_id341354.html>.  
However you can't use the pipe for asynchronous I/O on Windows. Someone  
else worked on a named pipe for Boost two years ago (see  
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/243397>). But I  
haven't heard anything about it lately.

Boris