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Boost 1.56.0 Library Documentation - System

System

Chrono

Useful time utilities. C++11.

Author(s)
Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes and Vicente J. Botet Escriba
First Release
1.47.0
Categories
Domain Specific, System
Context

Context switching library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.51.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming, System
Date Time

A set of date-time libraries based on generic programming concepts.

Author(s)
Jeff Garland
First Release
1.29.0
Categories
Domain Specific, System
Filesystem

The Boost Filesystem Library provides portable facilities to query and manipulate paths, files, and directories.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.30.0
Categories
System
System

Operating system support, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard library.

Author(s)
Beman Dawes
First Release
1.35.0
Categories
System
Thread

Portable C++ multi-threading. C++11, C++14.

Author(s)
Anthony Williams and Vicente J. Botet Escriba
First Release
1.25.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming, System