Hello folks. I've been milling this around in my head for a while and dug into several parts of the framework, and I can't seem to find anything usable. I need to create a pair of streams, so that what I write into stream A goes into B's read buffer, and vice-versa. Think pipe(), only bidirectional, or socketpair() without the sockets. The idea is to write unit tests for client and server objects in the same process, without resorting to e.g. having the test listen on some random TCP port and connect to itself.
The closest I've come is several of the classes in System.IO.Pipes, and even those don't look perfect. For example, I can't have a bidirectional anonymous pipe, and a named pipe could clash with others on the same system. It seems probable to me that some purely managed solution would exist already, but Google is not forthcoming and I would really *really* like to avoid coding something that ugly just for a unit test... Any ideas? -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
