Top "Named-pipes" questions

A named pipe is an inter-process communication mechanism, which exists both on Unix and Unix-like systems (where it is also known as a FIFO and is file-like), and on Microsoft Windows (where it is an in-memory kernel object).

What are named pipes?

What are they and how do they work? Context happens to be SQL Server

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SQL Connection Error: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904)

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Example of Named Pipes

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WCF named pipe minimal example

I'm looking for minimal example of WCF Named Pipes (I expect two minimal applications, server and client, which can communicate …

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IPC performance: Named Pipe vs Socket

Everyone seems to say named pipes are faster than sockets IPC. How much faster are they? I would prefer to …

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Create Named Pipe C++ Windows

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SQL Server Error "Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [53]"

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Using FFMPEG to stream continuously videos files to a RTMP server

ffmpeg handles RTMP streaming as input or output, and it's working well. I want to stream some videos (a dynamic …

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How slow are TCP sockets compared to named pipes on Windows for localhost IPC?

I am developing a TCP Proxy to be put in front of a TCP service that should handle between 500 and 1000 …

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How to open a Windows named pipe from Java?

On our Linux system we use named pipes for interprocess communication (a producer and a consumer). In order to test …

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