Re: Get number of bytes available in PeekNamedPipe (take 2)

[Alexandre Julliard]

Uwe Bonnes  writes:
> As I don't have a test target, I don't feel yet like filling lpvBuffer and I
> don't yet have an idea how to do that. I looked at the kernel sources and
> lseek unconditionally returns error on pipe. So how can we read the pipe and
> get the filepointer back to the original position afterwards?

You can't use lseek, you have to make the pipe a socket pair and use
recv(MSG_PEEK).
> wine/server/protocol.def
>    Define a FD_TYPE_PIPE
>    wine/server/file.c: get_handle_fd
>    On type FD_TYPE_PIPE check other end of type

If this is really necessary it should be done on the client side. I'm
not sure I see the point though.