How to list the names of all named pipes in a process?

Question

I need to open a specific named pipe so that I can test it, but my test code does not have access to the same data as for generating the name of the named pipe. However, I can find out the name of the pipe, and then use that name to open the pipe for fuzzing.

I used this forum post to start listing the handle names on the system: http://forum.sysinternals.com/howto-enumerate-handles_topic18892.html

It seems that for some reason it will not work with named pipes.

TL DR: What APIs do I need to display the names of all named pipes in the current process on Windows?

Answer 1

This will list all named pipes in the system, or at least take a step in the right direction.

This works in MinGW when building with -fpermissive. It should work with similar settings in MSVC.

#ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
// Windows XP
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501
#endif

#include <Windows.h>
#include <Psapi.h>


// mycreatepipeex.c is at http://www.davehart.net/remote/PipeEx.c
// I created a simple header based on that.    
#include "mycreatepipeex.h"

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdio>
#include <errno.h>

void EnumeratePipes()
{
    WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData;
    HANDLE hFind;

#define TARGET_PREFIX "//./pipe/"
    const char *target = TARGET_PREFIX "*";

    memset(&FindFileData, 0, sizeof(FindFileData));
    hFind = FindFirstFileA(target, &FindFileData);
    if (hFind == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) 
    {
        std::cerr << "FindFirstFileA() failed: " << GetLastError() << std::endl;
        return;
    }
    else 
    {
        do
        {
            std::cout << "Pipe: " << TARGET_PREFIX << FindFileData.cFileName << std::endl;
        }
        while (FindNextFile(hFind, &FindFileData));

        FindClose(hFind);
    }
#undef TARGET_PREFIX

    return;
}

int main(int argc, char**argv)
{
    HANDLE read = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
    HANDLE write = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
    unsigned char pipe_name[MAX_PATH+1];

    BOOL success = MyCreatePipeEx(&read, &write, NULL, 0, 0, 0, pipe_name);

    EnumeratePipes();

    if ( success == FALSE )
    {
        std::cerr << "MyCreatePipeEx() failed: " << GetLastError() << std::endl;
        return 1;
    }

    FILE *f = fopen((const char*)pipe_name, "rwb");
    if ( f == NULL )
    {
        std::cerr << "fopen(\"" << pipe_name << "\") failed: " << (int)errno << std::endl;
    }

    CloseHandle(read);
    CloseHandle(write);

    return 0;
}