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<dt><span class="section"><a href="faq.html#boost_process.faq.dead_lock">Why does this produce a
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">vector</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">string</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">demangle</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">vector</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="identifier">string</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">in</span><span class="special">)</span>
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<span class="identifier">opstream</span> <span class="identifier">os</span><span class="special">;</span>
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<span class="identifier">child</span> <span class="identifier">c</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="string">"c++filt"</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">std_out</span> <span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">is</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">std_in</span> <span class="special"><</span> <span class="identifier">os</span><span class="special">);</span>
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We switched the read and write operation up, so that's causing a dead-lock.
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This locks immediately. This is because <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">c</span><span class="special">++</span><span class="identifier">filt</span></code>
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expects input, before outputting any data. The launching process on the other
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<a name="boost_process.faq.closep"></a><a class="link" href="faq.html#boost_process.faq.closep" title="Why does the pipe not close?">Why does the pipe not close?</a>
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Now for another example, which might look correct, let's consider you want
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to use <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">ls</span></code> to read the current
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">ipstream</span> <span class="identifier">is</span><span class="special">;</span>
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<span class="identifier">cout</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="string">"File: "</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="identifier">file</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="identifier">endl</span><span class="special">;</span>
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This will also deadlock, because the pipe does not close when the subprocess
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exits. So the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">ipstream</span></code> will
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It is not possible to use automatic pipe-closing in this library, because
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a pipe might be a file-handle (as for async pipes on windows).
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But, since pipes are buffered, you might get incomplete data if you do this:
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<pre class="programlisting"><span class="identifier">ipstream</span> <span class="identifier">is</span><span class="special">;</span>
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<span class="identifier">child</span> <span class="identifier">c</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="string">"ls"</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">std_out</span> <span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">is</span><span class="special">);</span>
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<span class="identifier">std</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">string</span> <span class="identifier">file</span><span class="special">;</span>
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<span class="keyword">while</span> <span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">c</span><span class="special">.</span><span class="identifier">running</span><span class="special">())</span>
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<span class="special">{</span>
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<span class="identifier">is</span> <span class="special">>></span> <span class="identifier">file</span><span class="special">;</span>
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<span class="identifier">cout</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="string">"File: "</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="identifier">file</span> <span class="special"><<</span> <span class="identifier">endl</span><span class="special">;</span>
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<span class="special">}</span>
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It is therefore highly recommended that you use the asynchronous API if you
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are not absolutely sure how the output will look.
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<a name="boost_process.faq.wchar_t"></a><a class="link" href="faq.html#boost_process.faq.wchar_t" title="When will the codecvt be used?">When will the codecvt be used?</a>
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Since windows does not use UTF-8 it is sometimes unavoidable to use the
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">wchar_t</span></code> version of the WinApi.
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To keep this library consistent it provides <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">wchar_t</span></code>
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support on posix also.
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Since the posix api is purely <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">char</span></code>
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every <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">wchar_t</span></code> based type will
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be converted into <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">char</span></code>.
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Windows on the other hand is more selective; the default is to use <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">char</span></code>, but if any parameter requires <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">wchar_t</span></code>, everything will be converted to
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">wchar_t</span></code>. This also includes
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<code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">filesystem</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">path</span></code>. Additionally, if the system does
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not provide the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">char</span></code> api (as
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