Re: [naviserver-devel] nsproxy module: change comm to sockets instead of pipes?

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Zoran Vasiljevic <zv...@ar...> wrote:
>
> On Windows there are some limitations as how you can
> do non-blocking operations... In particular, there
> seems to be a problem with non-blocking reads/writes
> on unnamed pipes... They simply do not work on windows,
> at least as to our knowledge.

I don't know anything about Windows, but i t looks like PIPE_NOWAIT
switches to non-blocking mode but is a legacy of ye olde lan manager,
and instead you should use overlapped IO with the FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED
flag:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365788%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

This is all with named pipes. But it says the followinf about anon pipes:

  Anonymous pipes are implemented using a named pipe with
  a unique name. Therefore, you can often pass a handle to an
  anonymous pipe to a function that requires a handle to a named pipe.

So maybe you can substitute a named pipe with the appropriate flags
for the anon pipe?