Re: [Mingw-users] [OT] Reading from Win32 pipes

[Alberto L. <al...@na...>]

Thank you very much, Manu. Your code clarified things a lot. 
PeekNamedPipe() was what I was looking for, because at first I incorrectly 
thought that ReadFile would wait until all the data were sent to the pipe.

Alberto

El Vie 26 Dic 2003 16:46, Manu escribió:
> Well, I can share a bit of my experience, this is how I proceed in
> Visual-MinGW:
> CPipe::_peek() calls PeekNamedPipe to know if we have
> something to read, then CPipe::_read() fills the output buffer
> (COutBuffer).
>
> You can freely use the code in /libtemp, it is currently GPL'ed,
> but it will be moved into WinUI library soon, then it will be switched
> to public domain. As the copyright holder, I give you acknowledgement
> to use it in your app, in case it is helpfull.
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/visual-mingw/visual-mingw/src/libt
>emp/
>
> A Google search with "PeekNamedPipe", "ReadFile", etc... will give
> you much more inputs.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Manu.