I have the following working code using \_popen, on windows,

```
m_pGNUPlot = _popen("/gnuplot/bin/gnuplot.exe", "w");
fprintf(m_pGNUPlot, "set term win\n");
fprintf(m_pGNUPlot, "set term pngcairo\n"); 
fprintf(m_pGNUPlot, "plot \"\Data.txt\" using 1:2 notitle\n"); 
fprintf(m_pGNUPlot, "set output \"\Out.png\"\n");
fprintf(m_pGNUPlot, "replot\n");
fflush(m_pGNUPlot);

```

But the problem with this is that cmd window keeps poping up, and there is no way to prevent that ([Link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10020653/is-there-any-way-of-stopping-popen-opening-a-dos-window))
So, I write the equivalent code in boost::process

```
bp::pipe m_Write;
bp::environment env = boost::this_process::environment();
m_Plot = new bp::child("/gnuplot/bin/gnuplot.exe", bp::std_in < m_Write, env, boost::process::windows::hide);
m_Write.write("set term win\n", sizeof(char)*14);
m_Write.write("set term pngcairo\n", sizeof(char) * 19);    
m_Write("plot \"\Data.txt\" using 1:2 notitle\n", sizeof(char)*35);
m_Write("set output \"\Out.png\"\n", sizeof(char)*22);
m_Write.write("replot\n", sizeof(char) * 8);

```

So, my question is - are the two code snippets equivalent? And if so, why might the second one not work?