Questions tagged [named-pipes]
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). The semantics and APIs differ substantially between the platforms.
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unix domain socket VS named pipes?
After looking at a unix named socket and i thought they were named pipes. I looked at name pipes and didnt see much of a difference. I saw they were initialized differently but thats the only thing i ...
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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 use sockets because they can do two-way communication and are very flexible but will choose ...
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Example of Named Pipes
How do I write a simple--bare minimum needed for it to work--test application that illustrates how to use IPC/Named Pipes?
For example, how would one write a console application where Program 1 says "...
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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 via a named pipe.)
Microsoft has the briliant article Getting Started ...
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Example of using named pipes in Linux shell (Bash)
Can someone post a simple example of using named pipes in Bash on Linux?
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Why does a read-only open of a named pipe block?
I've noticed a couple of oddities when dealing with named pipes (FIFOs) under various flavors of UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD and MacOS X) using Python. The first, and perhaps most annoying is that attempts ...
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PipeTransmissionMode.Message: How do .NET named pipes distinguish between messages?
Can somebody clarify the meaning of PipeTransmissionMode.Message in .NET?
How does .NET distinguish one message passed through the pipe from another?
Can I serialize an object using a ...
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Python and Windows Named Pipes
What is the proper way of communicating with named pipes on Windows from Python? I've googled it, and can't find any packages that wrap this communication.
There are:
some descriptions of how to do ...
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What is a good way to shutdown Threads blocked on NamedPipeServer#WaitForConnection?
I start my application which spawns a number of Threads, each of which creates a NamedPipeServer (.net 3.5 added managed types for Named Pipe IPC) and waits for clients to connect (Blocks). The code ...
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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 active connections from the wild Internet.
The proxy is running on the same machine as the ...
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How to create a named pipe in node.js?
How to create a named pipe in node.js?
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For now I'm creating a named pipe as follows. But I think this is not best way
var mkfifoProcess = spawn('mkfifo', [fifoFilePath]);
mkfifoProcess.on('...
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Named Pipe Server throws UnauthorizedAccessException when creating a second instance if PipeSecurity is set
I am trying to write a (elevated privilege) service that will talk to a non privileged winforms application. I was able to have two console applications (one elevated one not) talk back and forth no ...
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SQL Connection Error: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904)
I am seeing this in several situations and it is intermittent in our web based application connecting to SQL Server 2008 R2 serve back end. Users are coming across a point 2 point connection and ...
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Python read named PIPE
I have a named pipe in linux and i want to read it from python. The problem is that the python process 'consumes' one core (100%) continuously. My code is the following:
FIFO = '/var/run/mypipe'
os....
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