Mailslot Names
When a process creates a mailslot, the mailslot name must have the following
form.
\\.\mailslot\[
path]
name
A mailslot name requires the following elements: two backslashes to begin the
name, a period, a backslash following the period, the word
mailslot, and a trailing backslash. Case, however, is not important. A mailslot name
can be preceded by a path consisting of the names of one or more
pseudodirectories, separated by backslashes. For example, if a user expects messages on the
subject of taxes from Bob, Pete, and Sue, the user's mailslot application might
allow the user to create individual mailslots for each sender.
\\.\mailslot\taxes\bobs_comments
\\.\mailslot\taxes\petes_comments
\\.\mailslot\taxes\sues_comments
To put a message into a mailslot, a process opens a mailslot whose name is in
one of several forms. To write to a mailslot on the local computer, a process
can use a mailslot name using the same form required for creating a mailslot.
This situation, however, is relatively uncommon. More frequently, a process uses
the following form to write to a mailslot on a specific remote computer.
\\computername\mailslot\[
path]
name
The following form allows a process to put a message into every mailslot in
the specified domain that has the given name.
\\domainname\mailslot\[
path]
name
To put a message into every mailslot with a given name in the system's primary
domain, a process uses the following form.
\\*\mailslot\[
path]
name
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