Qore Process Module

Table of Contents

• Process Module Introduction
• Process Module License Information
• Process Module Release History
  • process v1.0.1
  • process v1.0.0
  • process v0.0.2
  • process v0.0.1

Process Module Introduction

The process module is a Qore wrapper around Boost.Process by Klemens David Morgenstern.

Primary class provided by this module:

• Process

The process module provdes an API to manage system processes. It can be used to:

• create child processes
• communicate with child processes through standard input/output/error
• wait for processes to exit
• terminate processes
• get process memory and CPU load information
• and more

Process Module License Information

This module is released under the MIT license (see COPYING in the source distribution for more information)

Boost parts in src/boost are distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

Process Module Release History

process v1.0.1

• fixed bugs handling retrieving process status for already-terminated processes; addressed exception handling issues (issue 4272)

process v1.0.0

• added:
  • Process::readStdoutBinary()
  • Process::readStderrBinary()
• added support for output stream options and the encoding option in Process::constructor(); string read methods also make an effort to return valid multi-byte characters now as of this release (issue 4080)
• Process::wait() will no longer throw an exception if the process has already terminated

process v0.0.2

• fixed error handling Process::readStdout() and Process::readStderr() with negative arguments (issue 2333)

process v0.0.1

• initial release of the process module