Bugs: perl-libwin32-0.191-1 (Win32::Pipe->Connect) and using perl-5.8.2 open() to open an existing Win32 named pipe

Tue Feb 24 16:25:00 GMT 2004

I am currently writing an application that uses win32 named pipes to
communicate. The random length records being sent dictated opening
a file handle to the named pipe on the client and then using read()
to access the record. After noticing that libwin32-0.191 had been ported
to cygwin, I tried a perl named pipe server and client that I had written
for debugging the app on ActiveState Perl-5.8.2. I noticed the following:
Win32::Pipe-Connect() is either non-blocking, doesn't get passed the timeout
value when the pipe is created or has a very low timeout value. This could
also be an interpretation problem. The behavior I had expected was that when
no client is connected, the Win32::Pipe-Connect() would wait for a client
to connect until a timeout occurs. The behavior I got was that Win32::Pipe->
Connect() returns immediately with "True" if a client is connected and "False"
if one has not.
Perl open() on the client side doesn't seem to understand using UNC to open
an existing named pipe. For example if I do the following:
open(PIPE, "<", "\\\\.\\pipe\\my named pipe"); I get an error
message: "Mount device busy." After trying to use open() to connect to the
named pipe, No other connections are possible. It would appear that open
is interpreting "\\\\.\\pipe\\my named pipe" as a mount request.
A perl script illustrating the problem is attached. Vital statistics are:
 Cygwin DLL version info:
 DLL version: 1.5.7
 DLL epoch: 19
 DLL bad signal mask: 19005
 DLL old termios: 5
 DLL malloc env: 28
 API major: 0
 API minor: 109
 Shared data: 3
 DLL identifier: cygwin1
 Mount registry: 2
 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
 Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
 Program options name: Program Options
 Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
 Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
 Cygdrive default prefix: 
 Build date: Fri Jan 30 19:32:04 EST 2004
 CVS tag: cr-0x9e
 Shared id: cygwin1S3
and
perl 5.8.2-1 
perl-libwin32 0.191-1 
Thanks in advance
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