Is there a way to do a select() on a named pipe in win32? I want to have it block on the ReadFile call, but for only a few seconds, then if no data was received do some other work.
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Is there a way to do a select() on a named pipe in win32? I want to have it block on the ReadFile call, but for only a few seconds, then if no data was received do some other work.
You cannot use select() on a named pipe in win32. For emulating select like functionality for named pipes, you can use the named pipe APIs using the overlapped I/O model and WaitForMultipleObjects().
Click here for an example in MSDN for the same