Number of Clients that can connect to a Named Pipe

Question

Say a server created a named pipe \"myTestPipe\". How many clients can connect to \"myTestPipe\"? From what I have read on the Web, it seems only one client can, but wanted

Answer 1

You can have more than one client connect to the same named pipe. On Windows, I believe the current limitation is 256 simultaneous connections to a single named pipe, including the server's connection.

(Unfortunately, I can't track down the appropriate MSDN page for reference, but this CPAN pipes reference mentions this limitation.)

Answer 2

You actually create one pipe and wait for a connection, and when it connects, create a second one and wait on it.

For each pipe you create and wait for connection on, you get at most one connection (at a time - you can recycle them if they are request/response/close style).

Thus, each connection is 1-to-1, like a socket or other stream.