Re: [Boost-users] Interprocess support for Pipe

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Interprocess support for Pipe
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-12 11:50:01

El 12/06/2015 a las 17:35, Edward Diener escribió:

>> Boris, Boosters, would it be a good idea to add some Boost.Process
>> utilities to Boost.Interprocess? I'm thinking about process launching
>> and pipes.
>
> Named pipes are an interprocess mechanism. However named pipes can be
> synchronous or asynchronous and the asynchronous named pipe methodology
> is always needed for multi-threaded programs in my experience ( I wrote
> a named pipe asynchronous mechanism as part of my last consulting job ).
> Perhaps interprocess can use ASIO for the asynchronous portion of a
> named pipe implementation.

I was thinking about synchronous utilities, at least in the first 
integration, but using ASIO would be the way to go for asynchronous versions

Best,

Ion