Enables a named pipe server process to wait for a client process to connect to an instance of a named pipe. A client process connects by calling either the CreateFile or CallNamedPipe function.
BOOL ConnectNamedPipe( HANDLE hNamedPipe, LPOVERLAPPED lpOverlapped )
If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.
If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.
A named pipe server process can use ConnectNamedPipe with a newly created pipe instance. It can also be used with an instance that was previously connected to another client process; in this case, the server process must first call the DisconnectNamedPipe function to disconnect the handle from the previous client before the handle can be reconnected to a new client. Otherwise, ConnectNamedPipe returns zero, and GetLastError returns ERROR_NO_DATA if the previous client has closed its handle or ERROR_PIPE_CONNECTED if it has not closed its handle.
CallNamedPipe,CreateNamedPipe
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