Boost
C++ Libraries
...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Boost
C++ Libraries
...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Boost.Asio contains classes to allow asynchronous read and write operations
to be performed on Windows HANDLEs, such as named pipes.
For example, to perform asynchronous operations on a named pipe, the following object may be created:
HANDLE handle = ::CreateFile(...); windows::stream_handle pipe(my_io_context, handle);
These are then used as synchronous or asynchronous read and write streams. This means the objects can be used with any of the read(), async_read(), write(), async_write(), read_until() or async_read_until() free functions.
The kernel object referred to by the HANDLE must support use
with I/O completion ports (which means that named pipes are supported,
but anonymous pipes and console streams are not).
Windows stream HANDLEs are only available at compile time
when targeting Windows and only when the I/O completion port backend is
used (which is the default). A program may test for the macro BOOST_ASIO_HAS_WINDOWS_STREAM_HANDLE
to determine whether they are supported.