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Coding Standards
This is an older version of Boost and was released in 2025. The current version is 1.90.0.
Boost.Asio provides support for portable anonymous pipes on POSIX and Windows (when I/O completion ports are available). For example, to create and use a connected pair of pipe objects:
boost::asio::readable_pipe read_end(my_io_context); boost::asio::writable_pipe write_end(my_io_context); boost::asio::connect_pipe(read_end, write_end); write_end.async_write_some(my_write_buffer, [](boost::system::error_code e, size_t n) { // ... }); read_end.async_read_some(my_read_buffer, [](boost::system::error_code e, size_t n) { // ... });
basic_readable_pipe, basic_writable_pipe, connect_pipe, readable_pipe, writable_pipe.