[BNM] Named pipes (fifos) on Windows

Jamie Campbell jamie at glisferox.com
Fri Aug 1 21:44:13 BST 2008


Google on CreateNamedPipe seems to turn up a few useful bits of C.

I've Richter if it's any use. 

Jamie

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 12:32 +0100, Jay Caines-Gooby wrote:
> Are there any windows equivalents of mkfifo for windows? I understand
> that Windows named pipes are of the UNC form \\COMPUTER_NAME\pipe\foo
> or \\.\pipe\foo if the pipe is local. What I can't figure out, is how
> to create one of these in the first place
> 
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