Select on a named pipe

Question

Is there a way to do a select() on a named pipe in win32? I want to have it block on the ReadFile call, but for only a few seconds, then if no data was received do some other work.

Answer 1

You cannot use select() on a named pipe in win32. For emulating select like functionality for named pipes, you can use the named pipe APIs using the overlapped I/O model and WaitForMultipleObjects().

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