Named Pipe Type and Read Mode
The type of a pipe determines how data is written to a named pipe, and the
read mode determines how data is read from a named pipe. Data can be transmitted
through a named pipe as either a stream of bytes or as a stream of messages.
When using the
CreateNamedPipe function to create an instance of a named pipe, the server process specifies
the pipe's type, the type it must specify for all instances.
A byte-type pipe is created if PIPE_TYPE_BYTE is specified or, by default, if
no type is specified. This means that data is written to the pipe as a stream
of bytes, and the system does not differentiate between the bytes written in
different write operations. A handle to a byte-type pipe can be in byte-read mode
only.
A message-type pipe is created if PIPE_TYPE_MESSAGE is specified. This means
that the system treats each write operation to the pipe as a message unit. A
handle to a message-type pipe can be in either byte-read or message-read mode.
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