AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM is dropping messages
Noel Grandin
noelgrandin@gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 07:52:42 GMT 2021
On 2021/04/01 6:02 pm, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> Here's the issue, briefly. The communication is done via a Windows named pipe. The receiver creates the pipe when it
> creates and binds its socket. It creates only one pipe instance. The sender connects to the pipe, writes, and closes
> its handle. But the pipe is not available for another sender to connect to until the receiver reads the message, after
> which it disconnects the sender.
>
This
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/ipc/named-pipe-instances
seems to indicate that multiple pipe instances are needed to handle multiple clients nicely - it also has sample code
for such.
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