Module win32pipe

An interface to the win32 pipe API's

Methods

GetNamedPipeHandleState

Determines the state of the named pipe. 

SetNamedPipeHandleState

Sets the state of the named pipe. 

ConnectNamedPipe

Connects to a named pipe 

TransactNamedPipe

Combines the functions that write a message to and read a message from the specified named pipe into a single network operation. 

CallNamedPipe

Opens and performs a transaction on a named pipe. 

CreatePipe

Creates an anonymous pipe, and returns handles to the read and write ends of the pipe 

FdCreatePipe

As CreatePipe but returns file descriptors 

CreateNamedPipe

Creates an instance of a named pipe and returns a handle for subsequent pipe operations 

DisconnectNamedPipe

Disconnects the server end of a named pipe instance from a client process. 

GetOverlappedResult

Determines the result of the most recent call with an OVERLAPPED object. 

WaitNamedPipe

Waits until either a time-out interval elapses or an instance of the specified named pipe is available to be connected to (that is, the pipe's server process has a pending win32pipe::ConnectNamedPipe operation on the pipe). 

GetNamedPipeInfo

Returns pipe's flags, buffer sizes, and max instances 

PeekNamedPipe

Copies data from a named or anonymous pipe into a buffer without removing it from the pipe. It also returns information about data in the pipe. 

GetNamedPipeClientProcessId

Returns the process id of client that is connected to a named pipe 

GetNamedPipeServerProcessId

Returns pid of server process that created a named pipe 

GetNamedPipeClientSessionId

Returns the session id of client that is connected to a named pipe 

GetNamedPipeServerSessionId

Returns session id of server process that created a named pipe 

popen

Version of popen that works in a GUI 

Comments

Methods

popen2

Variation on popen - returns 2 pipes 

Methods

popen3

Variation on popen - returns 3 pipes 

Methods

popen4

Like popen2, but stdout/err are combined.