NamedPipe conformance tests

[Dan Kegel]

A couple questions:

1. Is anyone working on NamedPipe conformance tests?
If not, I'd be happy to try.  (Might be a challenge
to scare up a Server version of Windows, so initially
I'd just write the tests on Wine, and make sure they
compiled with winelib and with vc++.)

2. Since CreateNamedPipe is only available on Server
versions of Windows, we need a way to avoid running the
test on non-server versions.   Er, I suppose checking for
the presence of CreateNamedPipe would be the way to go :-)
I at first tried detecting the Windows version, but that's far too hairy.
- Dan

[David Fraser]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> A couple questions:
> - Is anyone working on NamedPipe conformance tests?
>
> If not, I'd be happy to try.  (Might be a challenge
> to scare up a Server version of Windows, so initially
> I'd just write the tests on Wine, and make sure they
> compiled with winelib and with vc++.)
> - Since CreateNamedPipe is only available on Server
>
> versions of Windows, we need a way to avoid running the
> test on non-server versions.   Er, I suppose checking for
> the presence of CreateNamedPipe would be the way to go :-)
> I at first tried detecting the Windows version, but that's far too hairy.
> - Dan

Are you sure CreateNamedPipe is only available on Server versions of 
Windows?
Seems to be there in Windows 2000 Professional...

David

[Fabian Cenedese]

> > - Since CreateNamedPipe is only available on Server
> >
> > versions of Windows, we need a way to avoid running the
> > test on non-server versions.   Er, I suppose checking for
> > the presence of CreateNamedPipe would be the way to go :-)
> > I at first tried detecting the Windows version, but that's far too hairy.
>
> Are you sure CreateNamedPipe is only available on Server versions of Windows?
> Seems to be there in Windows 2000 Professional...

I'm quite sure it's on a lot of Windows as we use this for our communication.
At least since NT4.

<MSDN>
  Windows NT: Requires version 3.1 or later.
  Windows: Unsupported.
  Windows CE: Unsupported.
  Header: Declared in winbase.h.
  Import Library: Use kernel32.lib.
  Unicode: Implemented as Unicode and ANSI versions on Windows NT.
</MSDN>

bye  Fabi