Monitoring events in my program and emailing reports

[Pie]

I like to have my program (running on my home machine)
email me (wherever I am) whenever it reaches a certain mile-stone
(finishes a phase of the simulation or runs into an interesting
path in the simulation). I just like add the feature so it can
email me the partial results. Is there a source code for
something like this I can add to my program? Do I need
an SMTP server code or can I use my current SMTP ISP smtp
server to email myself?

I know I can always write the results in d file on my web
server, but I want results emailed to myself when needed.

Thanks a lot in advance.

Ben

[Kevin Goodsell]

Jeff Schwab wrote:

Are you saying a pipe can't be implemented in C++?

I'm not 100% sure that I know exactly what you mean by "pipe", but the
C++ standard does not provide any means of communication between
processes, so I don't believe you can implement it in standard C++ (that
is, using the functionality provided by the C++ standard).

-Kevin
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[Jeff Schwab]

Kevin Goodsell wrote:

Jeff Schwab wrote:

Are you saying a pipe can't be implemented in C++?

I'm not 100% sure that I know exactly what you mean by "pipe", but the
C++ standard does not provide any means of communication between
processes, so I don't believe you can implement it in standard C++ (that
is, using the functionality provided by the C++ standard).

There is no direct provision for pipes in the standard, just as there is
no direct support for GUI's. However, both can be implemented in C++.
If you just mean that pipes aren't mentioned in the C++ standard, then I
agree with you wholeheartedly. I don't think acknowledging that we do
have operating systems, and that these systems sometimes support pipes,
is off-topic in comp.lang.c++ though. If you want to stick to a strict
discussion of the ISO standard, check out comp.std.c++. I lurk there
myself.

[red floyd]

Claudio Puviani wrote:

"Kevin Goodsell" <us************ *********@never box.com> wrote

Jeff Schwab wrote: [no you can't - yes I can redacted]

I think the problem here -- and it's a recurring one -- is in the phrasing of
that assertion. It's misleading toward beginners to state that "you can't do
[networking|grap hics|etc.] in Standard C++" and it's pejorative to C++ to imply
such an inability. The standard has never precluded using third party libraries
and a program that does use third party libraries doesn't suddenly become
non-conforming. If instead, it were phrased as "that functionality is not
included in the core language or the standard libraries and discussions of
third party or platform-specific libraries is off-topic in this newsgroup", it
would not mislead anyone into thinking it a limitation of C++, which it clearly
isn't.

Nicely phrased Claudio! I like it!

[Jeff Schwab]

red floyd wrote:

Claudio Puviani wrote:

"Kevin Goodsell" <us************ *********@never box.com> wrote

Jeff Schwab wrote:

> [no you can't - yes I can redacted]

I think the problem here -- and it's a recurring one -- is in the
phrasing of
that assertion. It's misleading toward beginners to state that "you
can't do
[networking|grap hics|etc.] in Standard C++" and it's pejorative to C++
to imply
such an inability. The standard has never precluded using third party
libraries
and a program that does use third party libraries doesn't suddenly become
non-conforming. If instead, it were phrased as "that functionality is not
included in the core language or the standard libraries and
discussions of
third party or platform-specific libraries is off-topic in this
newsgroup", it
would not mislead anyone into thinking it a limitation of C++, which
it clearly
isn't.

Nicely phrased Claudio! I like it!

I agree. In this instance, I didn't mention any particular
platform-specific library, just a feature common to most general-purpose
operating systems. In the general case, though, I think you've summed
it up nicely.