[Boost-users] [asio] Named pipes on Windows?

Subject: [Boost-users] [asio] Named pipes on Windows?
From: Allen Cronce (allenslists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-23 10:27:58

Hi all,

I'm working on a cross platform server daemon. Clients communicate  
with the daemon using boost asio.

For the posix implementation, it's convenient and appropriate in our  
case to use Unix domain sockets. I've experimented with the related  
asio "local" sample code and verified that it will work for our  
purposes.

For Windows it looks like named pipes are sort of the equivalent of  
Unix domain sockets. But while asio has a "stream_handle" interface  
that accepts a Windows handle, all of the sample and test code passes  
invalid handles. I haven't found any working sample or test code that  
specifically integrates named pipes with asio.

All I've found so far is an email to this list on March 13th from  
Andrew Solodovnikov who was having problems getting named pipes to  
work with asio.

Has anyone successfully used asio and Windows named pipes? If so,  
would you be willing to share some sample code that demonstrates the  
functionality?

Thanks in advance.

Best,
--
Allen Cronce