Implement UNIX select for WIN32 pipes

[Arsalan Malik]

I want to implement UNIX style select on WIN32 anonymous pipes. The thread should no block on ReadFile when pipe is available. WaitForSingleObject and WairForMultipleObjects don't seem to be working with pipes:confused: Is there a way to achieve select functionality in windows for pipes? ARSALAN MALIK

[led mike]

Check out IO Completion Ports. I think there are some Code Project Articles on them with named pipes.

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led mike

[Arsalan Malik]

I am using anonymous pipes, and according to MSDN[^], asynchronous I/O is not supported for anonymous pipes. It is suggested somewhere to use PeekNamedPipe to check the available bytes in the pipe without blocking, but this function is always returning 0:confused: ARSALAN MALIK

[led mike]

Arsalan Malik wrote:

anonymous pipes

My bad... I missed that in your first post. :-O