Boost Message Queue not based on POSIX message queue? Impossible to select(2)?

Question

I thought I\'d use Boost.Interprocess\'s Message Queue in place of sockets for communication within one host. But after digging into it, it seems that this library for some rea

Answer 1

Yeah, unfortunately it doesn't. I also was disappointed when realize that after digging sources.

But here is other (good) side of this fact: if your program uses boost::asio, you may wrap POSIX message queues API as just another datagram data source and this (IMHO) would be even better to use if it were a part of boost::interprocess... it would be quite non trivial, but (IMHO) definitely deserves this, so you may work w/ MQ in a unified way and use power of other boost::asio stuff...

... in my next project if I would need POSIX MQ again, I'll definitely take this way :)