On Fri, 17 May 2013 01:02:30 -0600, Geoff Shannon wrote:

Hi,

I'm interested in writing a named pipe implementation for Boost.Interprocess (mostly since I would like to use it myself!). I was curious if anyone knew if there has already been design work done on a desired interface, or if there is actual work underway (I wasn't able to find any evidence of either but I'm normally just a boost user).

I could need a named pipe for Boost.Process (which isn't an official Boost C++ library but everyone calls it like this). There is a create_pipe() function for anonymous pipes (see http://www.highscore.de/boost/process0.5/boost/process/create_pipe_id341354....). For asynchronous I/O on Windows a named pipe is required though. The example at http://www.highscore.de/boost/process0.5/boost_process/tutorial.html#boost_p... uses a create_async_pipe() function which however isn't provided by the library. So a function to create a named pipe would be definitely useful. Boris

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