deno_namedpipe

Asynchronous Named Pipes support for Deno, built on WinAPI using FFI.

Usage

const conn = await connect("\\\\?\\pipe\\{name}");
// use conn

connect function which returns NamedPipe partially implements Deno.Conn but for Named Pipes. API will be same as Deno.connect except closeWrite not being implemented and rid being the File Handle (instead of Resource ID).

This module also needs --unstable flag because it uses the new FFI feature to call WinAPI.

Why?

I know you can open a Windows Named Pipe in Deno using Deno.open and read/write on it, but Deno’s File implementation has a problem: if your read operation or write operation has not yet resolved, it’ll block any further read/write operation on the file which limits the usecase I had.

License

Licensed under Apache 2.0. Check LICENSE for more info.