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

[Alexandre Julliard]

Uwe Bonnes  writes:
> PeekNamedPipe must report when the pipe is broken, otherwise some programs
> wait forever for a message from the already disappeared program. Without
> checking for a broken other end, FIONREAD always reports "0 bytes". I don't
> see how I can doi that on the client side, beside exporting the
> pipe(_user)_get_fd functions directly. Programming hints are welcome.

OK, I was thinking this would be checked in read(), but I guess the
app may never call read() if PeekNamedPipe returns 0 available
bytes. You should be able to check for a closed pipe using poll() and
testing for POLLHUP.