Re: MsgWaitForSingleObject and named pipe. Which event am I getting ?

On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:06:51 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I would like to write some single-threaded code to work with a single 
> non-blocking, non-overlapped (incoming) named pipe, in combination with 
> MsgWaitForSingleObject - the latter as part of the message-loop.
> 
> The problem is that although it looks like I can wait /something/ to happen 
> with the pipe, I do not see how I can get *what* is happening : A new 
> connection (ConnectNamedPipe), or data coming in (ReadFile).
> 
> Does anyone have an idea ?   Some example code perhaps ?
> 
> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser
> 
> p.s.
> I was thinking of using a flag indicating the current mode, but that would 
> not work well if I ever decide to accept more than a single connection. :-|

My best bet would be one of those NtQueryXXX functions which are mostly
undocumented.