WinAPI C++ client detect write on anonymous pipe before reading

Question

I am writing a C++ (Windows) client console application which reads from an anonymous pipe on STDIN. I would like to be able to use my program as follows:

echo i         


        

Answer 1

This also works without overlapped I/O while using a second thread, that does the synchronous ReadFile-call. Then the main thread waits an arbitrary amount of time and acts like above...

Hope this helps...