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).

How to use named pipes in C# correctly -- several connections, server recreation etc

I need to implement an inter-process communication between C# applications. I decided to use named pipes and wrote the following …

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Named pipes server read timeout

When using C# NamedPipeServerStream, in case a client doesn't send any message-end-pattern (like \r\n when server reads with ReadLine()) …

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NamedPipeClientStream can not access to NamedPipeServerStream under session 0

I have NamedPipeClientStream which connects to NamedPipeServerStream. They exchange a couple of messages, and then NamedPipeClientStream closing, while NamedPipeServerStream recreated …

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Can't write to named pipe

I'm trying to write to a named pipe, made with mkfifo. But when I run the command, (ex) ls > …

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Best way to convert Stream (of unknown length) to byte array, in .NET?

I have the following code to read data from a Stream (in this case, from a named pipe) and into …

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c# Full Duplex Asynchronous Named Pipes .NET

I am trying to achieve a full-duplex client-server communication scheme, on 2 different machines (only), where each end-point (client or server) …

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Using named pipes with bash - Problem with data loss

Did some search online, found simple 'tutorials' to use named pipes. However when I do anything with background jobs I …

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Named pipes port number

Does named pipes use ports to communicate? Named pipes i use: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365150%28VS.85%29.aspx

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C++ Linux named pipe hanging on open() with O_WRONLY

This is my simple code that opens a named pipe, writes a string to it, and then closes the pipe. …

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Give input to ffmpeg using named pipes

I have a C program which generates a series of images and I wanted to make them into a video …

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