How does Boost.Interprocess compare with wx IPC?

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JohnD
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How does Boost.Interprocess compare with wx IPC?

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I was interested to see wx offers some IPC functionality, cross-platform. I wondered how it compares and contrasts with Boost's IPC library

I'm looking at IPC specifically for communication within a single PC, where one process can spawn multiple child processes for rendering (think of Google Chrome as an example, I guess).
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Post by Frank »

I cant' say anything about wx's IPC.

But for boost, it's crap. At least on windows. The Mutexes don't use WinAPI, instead they create it's own File-Based implementation (WinAPI = Kernel-Objects). If your Program crashes the files won't be deleted. Next time your Programm is launched the mutex can't be created, because of the existing file.

Bad bad bad.
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Anyone else?
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