Posted by Jim Carlock on 11/02/06 13:34

"Peter van Schie" :vanschie.peter at gmail.com: asked:
: I'm trying to create a named pipe to communicate with another
: application from a PHP application. The thing is that I cannot use any
: of the posix functions on Windows, including posix_mkfifo.
: Is there any other way to create a named pipe and if so.... how?
: Thanks in advance.

I haven't messed with this but perhaps it's of some help. The VB
declarations to the API are as follows:

Public Declare Function CreatePipe Lib "kernel32.dll" ( _
ByRef phReadPipe As Long, _
ByRef phWritePipe As Long, _
ByRef lpPipeAttributes As SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES, _
ByVal nSize As Long) As Long

Public Type SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES
nLength As Long
lpSecurityDescriptor As Long
bInheritHandle As Long
End Type

The same thing for MASM:

CreatePipe PROTO :DWORD,:DWORD,:SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES,:DWORD
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES STRUCT
nLength DWORD ?
lpSecurityDescriptor DWORD ?
bInheritHandle DWORD ?
SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES ENDS

And for C#:

[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
public static extern int CreatePipe (
int phReadPipe,
int phWritePipe,
ref SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpPipeAttributes,
int nSize);
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
public struct SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES{
internal int nLength;
internal int lpSecurityDescriptor;
internal int bInheritHandle;
}

Perhaps someone here can provide an example of how to set up
such API calls inside of PHP and provide an example in this case?

Jim Carlock
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