Select by named pipe

Question

Is there a way to do select () for a named pipe in win32? I want it to block when the ReadFile is called, but only for a few seconds, and then if the data was not received, follow some other steps.

Answer 1

You cannot use select () for a named pipe in win32. To emulate the function of selecting similar functions for named pipes, you can use the named pipe APIs using the overlapping I / O model and WaitForMultipleObjects ().

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