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Questions - boost-process

How to communicate with child process asynchronously?

I have a parent GUI app built with GTKmm, and I need to spawn a child process (another GUI app) and communicate with it. I use boost::process to do that. I know that I should do it asynchronously, so ...
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Wasenshi

c++

boost

boost-asio

gtkmm

boost-process

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Answers: 1

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As you've guessed, the Start() method blocks, so no other Gtk code gets a chance to run. This means nothing gets done, not even drawing the UI. Instead, make the child a member of the class. Next, use...
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sehe

How to send SIGTERM to a child process using boost::process

boost/process.hpp provides a nice mechanism to spawn and manage processes. It provides a child.terminate() method to send SIGKILL to a child. How would I alternatively send SIGINT or SIGTERM to a chil...
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CraigDavid

c++

boost

boost-process

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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Looks like you can do: #include <boost/process/child.hpp> pid_t pid = my_child.id (); kill (pid, SIGINT); The documentation states that id is a private member function, but in practise it seem...
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Paul Sanders

Building Boost with Process by Conan

I'm using Conan to manage my dependencies; my project requires Process and Interprocess components. How can I add these components to my Boost build with Conan? I'm using Boost 1.75 and Conan 1.44 on ...
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SigSegv

c++

boost

conan

boost-interprocess

boost-process

Votes: 0

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