Named Pipes IPC in D for windows and linux ?

[Tarun Ramakrishna]

Hi Johannes,

Thanks! I located mkfifo in 'core.sys.posix.sys.stat'. I couldn't find
anything for named pipes in the standard library, but there is a
Windows API project in dsource and the module 'win32.winbase' has
declarations for 'CreateNamedPipe', etc. I guess this will do.

Best Regards,
Tarun


On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Johannes Pfau <spam at example.com> wrote:
> Tarun Ramakrishna wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Is there anything in the standard library to do named pipes IPC in
>>both windows and linux ? I am not necessarily looking for a unified
>>API, anything that will allow me to setup named pipes on either OS and
>>read/write on them will do.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Tarun
>
> I'm not sure but I think there's nothing like that in the standard
> library. The only thing I can think of is that the new std.process
> (https://github.com/kyllingstad/phobos/blob/new-std-process/std/process.d)
> uses pipes for IPC (anonymous pipes though, not named pipes) :-(
>
> at least for posix druntime exports the c api, so you could write a
> wrapper for that. (The pipe functions and types are in
> core.sys.posix.sys.stat.d (mknod, S_IFIFO))
>
> --
> Johannes Pfau
>