John Emmas wrote:
> I'm trying to build a program that implements inter-process communication
> using named pipes. Because the code needs to also work under Windows
> (MSVC++) it uses CreateNamedPipe(...) to create the pipes (described here):-
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365150(VS.85).aspx
>
> If I understand the description, it seems that the created pipe can either
> be blocking or nonblocking depending on whether the flag
> FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED is specified at creation time.
Nope. Overlapped and blocking are slightly different concepts;
overlapped basically means "enabled for asynchronous I/O". What
you're looking for is PIPE_WAIT/_NOWAIT, further down the same page.
cheers,
DaveK
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