[BNM] Named pipes (fifos) on Windows

[Stuart Dunkeld]

> Are there any windows equivalents of mkfifo for windows?

Probably not, the implementation is quite different -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe#Named_pipes_in_Windows

> What I can't figure out, is how
> to create one of these in the first place

CreateNamedPipe ? - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365150(VS.85).aspx

.Net version: http://blog.paranoidferret.com/index.php/2007/07/25/interprocess-communication-using-named-pipes-in-csharp/

-- stuart

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Jay Caines-Gooby <jay at gooby.org> wrote:
 understand
> that Windows named pipes are of the UNC form \\COMPUTER_NAME\pipe\foo

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