C++: Implementing Named Pipes using the Win32 API

Question

I\'m trying to implement named pipes in C++, but either my reader isn\'t reading anything, or my writer isn\'t writing anything (or both). Here\'s my reader:

Answer 1

You must use CreateNamedPipe() to create the server end of a named pipe. Be sure to specify a non-zero buffer size, zero (documented by MSDN as 'use system default buffer size') doesn't work. MSDN has decent samples for a multi-threaded client&server.