Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PeekNamedPipe must report when the pipe is broken, otherwise some programs > wait forever for a message from the already disappeared program. Without > checking for a broken other end, FIONREAD always reports "0 bytes". I don't > see how I can doi that on the client side, beside exporting the > pipe(_user)_get_fd functions directly. Programming hints are welcome.
OK, I was thinking this would be checked in read(), but I guess the app may never call read() if PeekNamedPipe returns 0 available bytes. You should be able to check for a closed pipe using poll() and testing for POLLHUP. -- Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
