[section:introduction Introduction]

Boost.Process is a library to manage system processes. It can be used to:

* create child processes
* setup streams for child processes
* communicate with child processes through streams (synchronously or asynchronously)
* wait for processes to exit (synchronously or asynchronously)
* terminate processes

Here's a simple example of how to start a program with Boost.Process:

[import ../example/intro.cpp]
[intro]

[caution This is not yet an official Boost C++ library. It wasn't reviewed and can't be downloaded from [@http://www.boost.org/ www.boost.org]. It is however the latest version of an ongoing effort to create a process management library for Boost. For now the library can be downloaded from [@http://www.highscore.de/boost/process0.5/process.zip http://www.highscore.de/boost/process0.5/process.zip].]

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